The Artsakh Defense Army issued a statement, which, in particular, reads:
"On December 29, footage was spread on the Azerbaijani Internet, which, according to the Azerbaijani side, shows the bodies of 6 Armenian servicemen killed near the village of Hakaku in the occupied Hadrut region of Artsakh.
The NKR Defense Army reaffirms its earlier statement that neither on December 27, nor in the previous days, nor in the following days, any unit of the Defense Army, no servicemen were involved in any military operation, and did not fire a single shot. The ceasefire regime has been and is maintained along the entire length of the line of contact.
The actions and statements of the Azerbaijani side are aimed at concealing another war crime, and this is the purpose of refusing to allow search groups to enter search areas.
Active work is underway to find out the identities of the people depicted in the footage. The Defense Army does not rule out that we are dealing with the brutal murder of captives by Azerbaijani side.
We strongly condemn this policy of the Azerbaijani side, which contradicts the logic of the November 9 trilateral statement. The Artsakh Republic will be consistent in revealing the war crimes committed by Azerbaijan".
