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On Sunday, the Karabakh Republic unilaterally declared that its forces had destroyed the Ganja military airport in southern Azerbaijan and threatened to bomb other military sites in the country’s largest cities.
The president of the unilaterally proclaimed republic, Aryk Harutyunyan, in a statement published today by the United Armenian Media Center, blamed Azerbaijan for attacking the residents of the capital of the “republic”, the city of Stepanakert (Khankendi), using the missile launchers “Polonez” and “Smirtch”, despite multiple warnings. .
“Permanent military sites in the big cities of Azerbaijan are now targets of our army, and I urge the people of Azerbaijan to leave these cities urgently to avoid possible losses. It is the military leadership of Azerbaijan that bears the responsibility for all this. Harutyunyan said.
Subsequently, the president claimed that several missile attacks targeted Ganja, in southern Azerbaijan (the second largest city in the country in terms of population), and stressed that he had ordered a halt to the implementation of raids on the city to avoid casualties. civilians.
Meanwhile, the assistant to the president of the Karabakh Republic, which is not internationally recognized, Fahram Boghossian, announced on his Facebook page that the Ganja military airport had been destroyed, in which the Armenian side had previously stated that there was they deployed Turkish F-16 fighters and were shot down. One of them, on September 29, was an Armenian “Su-25” fighter jet, which Azerbaijan denied.
