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President of Nagorno-Karabakh ordered ceasefire on Ganja

October 5, 2020
Photo: Armenian Government/AFP/Getty via FT

Shooting at Azerbaijani targets stopped to save the lives of civilians.


President of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Araik Harutyunyan ordered to stop missile strikes on military facilities of Azerbaijan in the city of Ganja.

“By my order, today the Defense Army launched several missile strikes on the city of Ganja. Now I have instructed to stop the shooting in order to avoid innocent civilian casualties, ”he wrote on Facebook. He added that if the enemy does not draw conclusions, the strikes will resume.

On the morning of October 4, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that the Armenian armed forces fired at the Azerbaijani cities of Terter and Horadiz in the Fizuli region, there is a victim. The Armenian Defense Ministry denied the information.

Also on October 4, the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Stepanakert, came under fire from Azerbaijan. According to the RT TV channel, more than ten explosions thundered in the city.

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