The life of one of the wounded French journalists was saved.

The Nagorno-Karabakh separatist army shot down two more Azerbaijani planes, an Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Arcrun reported in Ovannis that the separatists had previously shot down an Azerbaijani plane, two helicopters and six drones. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry described the Armenian reporting as a hoax, claiming that its planes had not even taken off. However, they emphasized that every aircraft in their army was “operational and ready to fight.”

The Baku ministry also reported that the army had destroyed air defense equipment and missile launchers belonging to the Armenian forces.

The ministry said that Armenian forces had carried out an artillery strike against civilian targets in Horadiz, Nagorno-Karabakh. The portfolio did not provide further details.

Armenian defense spokeswoman Susan Stepanyan, meanwhile, reported that Azerbaijani forces were attacking artillery on a road to Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenia. The spokesman said that the fierce artillery attacks in Nagorno-Karabakh continued into the afternoon.

The Azerbaijani prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday that the number of Azerbaijani civilians who had lost their lives since the conflict escalated again had risen to 19.

Ovannisyan said on Thursday night that air defenses had been activated in Armenia and four drones had been fired in the Yerevan area.

“Armenian air defenses are up and running. Don’t worry, the use of air defenses is noisy,” the spokesperson wrote on his Facebook page.

Four journalists, two French and two Armenians, were injured in the clashes, according to reports from the news agency on Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron, who was at the European Union summit in Brussels, announced that Paris would send a plane to Nagorno-Karabakh to repatriate the injured French journalists.

Armenian authorities previously reported an artillery attack on four Azeri journalists in Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, including two staff members of the French daily Le Monde and a reporter for the Armenian news portal 24news.am and the operator of a television channel. called Armenia.

The Nagorno-Karabakh region’s Foreign Ministry later reported that two French journalists working for Le Monde had been operated on after being wounded in the shootout against Azeris. According to the ministry, the two journalists in crisis are being transported to the Armenian capital, Yerevan.

Meanwhile, the Armenian Information Center reported that doctors had saved the life of one of the French journalists. You still don’t have information about your partner’s status.

Turkey, which supports the Azeris, is taking an increasingly active role in the war. The Hungarian government has expressed its support for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

 



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They shot all night in Nagorno-Karabakh - video


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Even at night, Azerbaijani and Armenian troops continually fired at each other in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. The Armenians, who say Azerbaijan also deployed “terrorist mercenaries”, shot down three Azerbaijani helicopters and one crashed in Iran. And the Azerbaijani side said that either the Armenians would withdraw or the war would continue.

Fights in Nagorno-Karabakh: more than 90 dead


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At least 11 civilians were also killed in the clashes.