Yerevan reacted to reports from Baku regarding "liberation of 11 thousand hectares in the direction of Nakhijevan"

Mariana Mkrtchyan. Official Yerevan reacted to the reports of Azeri media regarding the allegedly "liberated 11 thousand hectares in the direction of Nakhijevan."

"Why so modest? Announce about 110,000 hectares. Someone eager to confirm and like." Armenian Foreign Ministry Secretary Tigran Balayan twitted.

Earlier, Azeri media spread information that supposedly in late May, the Gunnut village located around important strategic heights was captured and local residents returned to their homes and visited the graves of deceased relatives. "The National Army occupied the mountain Gunnut, Gyzylgaya and Mehridag, Agbulag hill, village of Arpa in Daralayaz. In overall 11 thousand hectares are under control, more than 8000 ha of which is arable. The greatest strategically important height located at an altitude of 1683 meters above sea level which allows to keep under control the village Gunnut Sharur hill Gyzylgaya is that it allows our military to control the highway Yerevan-Yeghegnadzor-Goris-Lachin- In order to protect the territory, a new road with a length of 50 km has been completed, and roads with a total length of over 50 km have been reconstructed," the Azeri propaganda lied.

Meanwhile, according to Artsrun Hovhannisyan, press secretary of the Defense Ministry of Armenia, on June 6 and 7, the Azeri side appealed to the command of the Armed Forces, with a request to allow some of its citizens to approach the cemetery located in the south of the ruins of the village of Gunnut. "This is the first time that the Azeri side has requested this on this site: the Armenian side, while remaining committed to humanitarian norms and always taking steps to reduce tension, agreed and allowed the peaceful residents to approach the cemetery for a short period," Hovhannisyan said.