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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the Armenian army bombed the city of Ganja, which is the second most populous city in Azerbaijan after the capital Baku, which was denied by Armenia, and the bombardment comes in light of the escalation. of the fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region and nearby areas.
Today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that one civilian was killed and 4 others injured in the Ganja bombing. Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov described the Ganja bombing as a provocative act that took place from the territory of Armenia with the aim of expanding the area of the fighting.
Ganja is inhabited by about 335 thousand people, and is located about 100 km north of Stepana Kurt (the capital of Karabakh province) and 80 km from the Armenian city of Wardenis.
And Azerbaijan accused by Armenia of bombing their lands from Wardenis, which was denied by Yerevan.
Hikmat Hajiyev, aide to the Azerbaijani president, said today that his country will directly destroy military targets inside Armenia, from where missiles aimed at Azerbaijani cities are launched.
Armenian exile
On the other hand, the Armenian Defense Ministry denied that the Ganja bombing had been carried out from its territory and said it was carried out from the Karabakh region. In turn, the president of the separatist region, Artsron Hovhannisyan, said that he had ordered a halt to the Ganja bombing to avoid civilian casualties, adding that his forces destroyed a military air base in Azerbaijan’s second-largest city.
He threatened to bomb the Azerbaijani city again if Baku did not understand the message, he said, noting that Azerbaijan had used Ganja airport as a base for its fighter jets to launch bombing campaigns in the disputed territory. Hovhannisyan, who heads the so-called “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic”, which is not recognized internationally, added: “The military units located in the main cities of Azerbaijan have become targets of the defense army from now on.”
The battles between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces last week resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries, but the exact number of victims is not possible, and Baku and Yerevyan exchange accusations of responsibility for the start of the bombing on September 25.
The Nagorno Karabakh region, which has an Armenian majority, declared its separation from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. This led to a war that killed 30,000 people, and no peace agreement was signed between the two parties. Although the front was almost frozen since then, but witnessed clashes from time to time.
The provincial capital
Today, the Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that there had been heavy shelling with artillery and drones in the capital of Karabakh province, “Stepana Kurt”. As a result, communications and the power grid were cut off. And the French Press Agency reported that this morning sirens sounded in the capital of the region, before the successive explosions resulting from the new bombardment of the Azerbaijani forces. Baku authorities stated that they took “retaliatory measures” after Armenian separatists, who control the region, fired projectiles from Stepana Kurt.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry said heavy human and material losses occurred as a result of Azerbaijani forces shelling civilian areas with artillery and missiles. The Armenian Defense Ministry said that its forces responded to the attack by Azerbaijani forces on all axes of combat, and that Azerbaijani army forces suffered loss of life and equipment. The ministry said that its forces still control all areas of the “Faizuli and Gabriel” axis in the south and the “Tartre” axis in the north.
On the other hand, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, said yesterday in a tweet on his Twitter account that the forces of his country had taken control of 7 towns that were under “Armenian occupation”, as he described it. The problem is related to the villages: Talish in Tatar province, Mahdili, Chakreli, Ashagy Maralian, Chai Bek and Kojak in Gabriel Governorate (near the Iranian border), and Ashagy Abd al-Rahmanli in Governorate of Fuzuli.
Strategic town
Also yesterday, Aliyev announced the regaining of control of Madhir village in Agdara province. The Al-Jazeera correspondent said Madger is the largest city controlled by Azeri forces since the outbreak of clashes with Armenia last Sunday.
By controlling the village of Madgir, the Azerbaijani forces took control of a road linking the Karabakh region with Armenia.
For his part, Hovhannisyan said that the situation in the region changes frequently and explained – in statements to journalists – that “in such a big war, these variables are normal. We can take a position and then leave it in an hour.”
Fateful moments
Yesterday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, in a speech broadcast on television, that his country is facing “probably the most fateful moments in our history”, referring to the intensification of fighting on various fronts with Azerbaijani forces, and He added that the scale of what he called the Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression against Karabakh is unprecedented. Adding that Azerbaijan and Turkey have failed to achieve any strategic goals or progress.
On Saturday night, a “national prayer for Nagorno Karabakh and her mother-in-law” was held in all churches in Armenia and in churches of Armenian communities abroad.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said yesterday, on the seventh day of the fighting, that forces from the Karabakh region were able to deter a major attack by Azerbaijani forces, adding that fighters from the region destroyed an Azeri battalion and shot down a helicopter. during battles.
And the authorities in the Karabakh region announced that the death toll among their forces had risen to more than 200.
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