Author: Hambik Zargarian

 22:34, 5 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS. Representative of the MoD Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan presented details on the goals of the Azerbaijani subversive groups and the neutralization operations of the Defense Army of Artsakh. ARMENPRESS reports in an interview with ''Interview'' program on Public TV Artsrun Hovhannisyan underlined that he has noticed that Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev presents the subversive groups as Azerbaijani army attacking Shushi.

''He feeds his public with such news, also the international community listens to that. But I am surprised and don't know such a tactic of war. So what does it mean? How do they attack us if we search them, find for example a group f 15-20, kill some of them, the others escape? They run away in another direction, go to forests, bypass some places and emerge from some other places, trying to find weaker points, enter villages, damage them, hang flags and take photos. Then our soldiers again find them, again fire, they again run away, suffering some losses'', Hovhannisyan said.

According to him, the so-called attack of the Azerbaijani subversive groups in the direction of Shushi was not a success. Hovhannisyan said that on November 5 the Azerbaijanis tried to crawl the rocks of Shushi all day long, trying to enter the city. ‘’The crawlers were small groups of 5-10, maximum 20. Armenian soldiers killed them, then approached and saw that all of them had flags with them. It’s clear that they are trying to make some symbolic success, to shoot a video of someone of them entering the city and raising the flag. November 9 is the day of flag in Azerbaijan and now they are trying to do something, show that they took it, but they are unable to do that’’, Hovhannisyan said.

Artsrun Hovhannisyan said the Azerbaijani side could have benefitted from this situation if they had been able to break in the front line from Martuni direction. ''They tried to do it during the last 3-4 days trying to take control of the entire road. In that case their subversive groups would be able to survive, they would escape the fate of being killed in small groups. But they failed and their small subversive groups continue to be eliminated'', Hovhannisyan said.

Referring to the situation in Berdzor, Hovhannisyan asured that everything is normal in the city, people live their normal life. But he added that there are groups in the direction of Lisagor village on the way to Shushi, which fled to the forests following the November 4 operation. ''Today we found some of them, fired from mortars, artillery and cleaning groups hunted them, killed some of them, others again fled’’, he said.

According to Artsrun Hovhannisyan, at the moment a non-conventional war is going on, during which the Azerbaijani side uses subversive groups, mercenaries and a conventional war at the same time, using armored military equipment, artillery, aviation and so on.

Referring to the priority task for the Defense Army of Artsakh, Hovhannisyan emphasized that their priority task is to preserve the favorable positions and during that process find and neutralize the subversive groups.

 09:34, 4 November, 2020

STEPANAKERT, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. The Artsakh Defense Army says the situation overnight November 3-4 was “relatively stable but tense” in all directions of the frontline.

The Azerbaijani armed forces continued bombarding civilian settlements with rocket-artillery strikes, in addition to attacking Defense Army positions.

Civilians were injured. 

“After midnight an Azerbaijani sabotage team attempted to achieve success in the direction of Shushi, but facing the resistance of the Artsakh regular army and volunteer troops the enemy suffered heavy losses and was repelled,” the Defense Army said. It added that the Artsakh troops are now encircling and eliminating the Azeri raid team.

“The Defense Army units are in control of the tactical situation along the entire frontline.”

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 13:37, 4 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. Around 180 investigators from the Committee of Investigations of Armenia have signed up for the military as volunteers and the Director of the Committee of Investigations Hayk Grigoryan has personnaly led the company to the frontline, his deputy Artur Melikyan told reporters.

“Grigoryan is personally leading the work of the committee’s volunteers on the ground,” Melikyan said.

He said that another company of volunteers from their agency will head to the frontline this week.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 21:00,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS. A resident of Artsakh's Aknaghbyur village, Sergey Balayan, 60, has died as a result of the Azerbaijani bombing. 6 civilians have been injured, ARMENPRESS reports Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan wrote in his Twitter micro blog.

''Azerbaijan continues deliberate/indiscriminate attacks against civilian settlements and population'', Beglaryan wrote.

Explosion occurs in Turkey's İskenderun, one of the terrorists killed

 23:08,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS. An explosion occured in Turkey's İskenderun city, when the special units were chasing two terrorists, ARMENPRESS reports, citing ''TRT World Now'', head of Turkey's Hatay Province Rahmi Dogan said.

''One of the terrorists was killed, there are no casualties among civilians'', he said.

Police and ambulances have been sent to the scene.

 08:42,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS. UN Secretary General António Guterres has welcomed the ceasefire agreement in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone, his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement. 

“The Secretary-General welcomes the joint statement issued today by the Governments of the United States, Armenia and Azerbaijan announcing that the humanitarian ceasefire agreed in Moscow on 10 October and reaffirmed in Paris on 17 October will take effect at 8 a.m., local time, on Monday 26 October. He commends the facilitation efforts of the United States, with the support of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.
 
The Secretary-General reiterates his appeal to the parties to fully implement their agreement without delay based on this understanding and to resume substantive negotiations without preconditions under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.  He also calls on the parties to allow safe and unimpeded access to humanitarian workers and delivery of humanitarian assistance and services to civilians in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
 
The Secretary-General expects the parties to abide by all their commitments and to work jointly together with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to make concrete steps towards a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” reads the statement.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan announced that the Armenian side will fully maintain the from 08:00 as agreed.

Editing by Stepan Kocharyan

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 22:16,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS. The Turkish F-16 fighter jets continue coordinate the UAV attacks of Azerbaijani armed forces, representative of MoD Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan said in a press conference on October 11.

‘’The Turkish air forces continue to control the activities of the Azerbaijani air forces. Particularly, with the support of air control points, 6 Turkish F-16 fighter jets accompany Turkish and Israeli-made combat UAVs that strike Artsah’s infrastructures, communication channels and armed forces. These acts are prevented by the air defense units of the Defense Army’’, Hovhannisyan said.

On September 29 a Turkish F-16 fighter jet downed an Armenian SU-25 jet in the Armenian air space. The pilot did not survive.

Azerbaijan unleashed war against Artsakh on September 27. In addition to the military and political support of Turkey to Azerbaijan, Turkey has also deployed thousands of mercenary-terrorists in Azerbaijan to fight against Artsakh.

On October 9 a ceasefire agreement was reached between the Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs mediated by Russian FM. Aetsakh has voiced about numerous cases of the ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan since the agreement entered into force, including launching missile strikes against cities and settlements of Artsakh.

Editing and translating by Tigran Sirekanyan