ArmInfo.The Armenian Foreign Ministry alarms the launch of a new attack by the Azerbaijani armed forces in the Karabakh conflict zone.
Thus, in the statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry in connection with the situation on the Contact Line of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani troops, it is noted in particular:<According to the information received from the Defense Forces of Artsakh, since this afternoon the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, concentrating reserve forces and a large number of military equipment, including tanks and artillery, launched a large-scale attack towards the southern direction of the line of contact between Artsakh and Azerbaijan. These actions are taking place during the visit of the Foreign Minister of Turkey to Baku and hours after the statement of the Foreign Minister of the OSCE Minsk Group Co- Chairs. The Defense Forces of Artsakh undertakes all the necessary measures to repel the attack. The military political leadership of Azerbaijan bears full responsibility for the consequences.>
In turn, representative of the RA Ministry of Defense Artsrun Hovhannisyan, in particular, wrote: "Welcome to hell! According to the Artsakh Defense Army, in the afternoon, the Azerbaijani armed forces launched a large-scale attack in the southern direction of the Contact Line between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, using reserve forces, a large number of military equipment, including tanks and artillery. The enemy also ignores the security of the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Numerous capabilities of the enemy are methodically and continuously destroyed, "Artsrun Hovhannisyan wrote. It is also worth noting that earlier, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said that he had ordered the army "to plan actions to strike at the military-strategic infrastructure on the enemy's territory using the weapons in the arsenal that have great destructive power."