The air defense sirens sounded hourly at Stepanakert last night. Armenian and Azerbaijani reports also reported that fighting was continuing, the former claiming to have detained three brigades.

Azerbaijani forces began firing on the Nagorno-Karabakh headquarters, Stepanakert and other settlements in the Armenian separatist territory again on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry told Arcrun Hovhannisyan. The Defense Ministry also reported on the continuing fighting in Baku.

A correspondent for the AFP news agency reported that Stepanakert was attacked several times not only in the morning but also at night, with air defense sirens sounding at regular intervals, almost every hour, in the center of the disputed enclave of Armenians.

Explosions could be heard after each airstrike, but it was impossible to determine whether the city was fired upon with rockets or artillery or bombarded from the air. Locals said the most severe attack since Wednesday had hit the mountainous city of 55,000 people, 1,000 meters above sea level, since the end of the week.

The Armenian Defense Ministry has also issued a separate statement on the ongoing fighting. It was written that the Nagorno-Karabakh army prevented an attack on the Azerbaijani force in the southern part of the front in the morning. At night, the Azerbaijani soldiers tried to advance and scorn their feet near Jebrail, but the Armenian army aimed artillery and missiles at them. In the morning, the bodies of more than 60 Azeri soldiers and 22 destroyed military equipment remained on the battlefield, and three enemy brigades withdrew in panic. The Armenian army also destroyed one of the enemy’s large fuel bases.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also reported that fighting continued throughout the night in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, with Azerbaijani troops conducting operations in various directions to continue “the military successes of the past days”. Opponents carried out artillery strikes against each other, and Azerbaijani artillery destroyed the command post of one of the mountain hunting units of the Armenian army. “Many of the dead and wounded, one of the enemy’s tanks and three artillery shells were destroyed,” the Baku ministry said.

Clashes flared up again in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, which is of controversial affiliation but is inhabited by Armenians but officially belongs to Azerbaijan, on September 27, and the situation has not subsided since. A state of emergency has also been declared in Azerbaijan and Armenia, and mobilization has been ordered. There are constant reports of deaths and injuries, but reports of war from the two sides often contradict each other. The great powers – Russia, the United States, France and the European Union – continue to try in vain to persuade their opponents to stop fighting.

In the war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, Budapest will take the side of the latter. Foreign affairs previously stated that “Hungary defends the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.”



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Azerbaijani forces are firing rockets at Nagorno-Karabakh capital Stepanakert and Armenian forces are attacking several Azerbaijani cities, Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministers said Monday morning.

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