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The authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh region confirm Azerbaijan’s control over the city of “Shusha” near the capital, and the Armenian Defense Ministry insists on denying this news.
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The capture of “Shusha” tightens the tie in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh
A spokesman for the leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Fahram Boghossian, said Monday that Armenian fighters lost control of the pocket’s second-largest city, noting that “Azerbaijani forces are tightening the screws of the capital, Stepanakert “.
“The city of Shushi is no longer under our control. We must stick together because the enemy is close to the capital, Stepanakert,” Boghossian said in a statement via Facebook.
And Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced in a televised speech on Sunday that the city of “Shusha”, located in the Nagorno Karabakh region, “has come under the control of Azerbaijani forces.” But Armenian officials deny this claim, saying that “fighting continues in the strategic area.”
“Intense clashes broke out in the Shushi Karinitak sector,” a spokeswoman for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanian, wrote on Twitter, referring to a village at the foot of the hills where the city is located.
“The enemy withdrew while friendly forces occupied more advanced lines,” he added, noting that “fighting in the vicinity of Shushi continues. Army units carry out their mission successfully in Nagorno Karabakh, depriving the enemy of The initiative”.
Armenia denied that the Armenian fighters in the mountainous enclave lost control of the city, which the Armenians call “Shushi”, but said that “the fighting in its surroundings continues to be violent.”
The capture of “Shusha” (according to the Azerbaijani term), if confirmed, constitutes a great victory for Baku, after 6 weeks of battles in Nagorno Karabakh, the Armenian-majority region that separated from Azerbaijan in the 1990s.
The city is located just 15 km from the provincial capital, Stepanakert, and on a main road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.
People celebrated in the streets of Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, on Sunday when President Ilham Aliyev announced that his country’s forces had taken control of Shusha, the second largest city in Nakorno Karabakh, while Armenian officials did. they denied.
The Azerbaijani president also said today, Monday, that “the Azerbaijani army imposed its control over a new number of cities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.”
Aliyev had previously announced that his country was ready to agree to a ceasefire in Karabakh, two days after he announced that he was not ruling out the possibility of meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow, to discuss the situation in the Nagorno region. -Karabakh, which is disputed between the two countries.
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