ArmInfo.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh published a commentary on the 29th anniversary of the large-scale operation "Ring" on the  deportation of the Armenian population of the border villages of  Artsakh.

In particular, the report says that the operation was carried out  with the direct organization and coordination of the central  authorities of the USSR and Azerbaijan, which finally transferred the  Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict to the military plane, launching the  subsequent full-scale aggression of Azerbaijan against the Republic  of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic).

On April 30, 1991, a massive shelling of Getashen and Martunashen  villages of the Shaumyan region launched Operation Ring, during which  tanks, combat helicopters, and artillery were used for the first time  against civilians. Azerbaijani special police units (OMON), with the  support of units of the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of  Internal Affairs and the Soviet Army, broke into Armenian villages  formally supposedly for , but in  reality for killing, robbery, terror against the Armenian population  with subsequent deportation>, in the source. As a result of  military-police actions, dozens of Armenian villages of Northern  Artsakh, as well as the Shahumyan, Hadrut and Shusha districts were  destroyed, almost ten thousand people were deported, more than 100  were killed, several hundred people were taken hostage. The fate of  many of them remains unknown until now.