Azerbaijan is bombing Nagorno Karabakh, including Stepanakert. An air siren declared in the city. Both local residents and official Baku report the attack.
According to the message released by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, Baku calls the shelling of the civilian population an "anti-terrorist operation, the purpose of which it considers restoration of constitutional order" and emphasizes that the Russian peacekeepers and the management of the Russian-Turkish monitoring center were informed about the operation.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Nagorno-Karabakh reported that around 11:10 a.m. the Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire in Askeran region by using a mortar. There were no casualties on the Armenian side as a result of the ceasefire violation.
The department denied the Azerbajani report that around 11:45 AM the units of the Defense Forces violated the ceasefire in Askeran region.
Earlier, the ministry also denied that the defense army fired at the Azerbaijani positions located in the occupied territories of Askeran region at night.
The military department also denied the message of the National Security Service of Azerbaijan that their units allegedly infiltrated and planted an anti-tank mine on the 58th km section of the Ahmedbeyli-Fizuli-Shushi highway. a person died.