Category: 2021

The National Security Service (NSS) reports that on August 25, at around 23.00 the Azerbaijani side has blocked Karmraqar-Shurnukh section of the interstate road leading from Goris to Kapan. The vehicles have been evacuated from the mentioned area, the press service at NSS reported  

According to the source, works are underway to open the road and resume the regular movement of people and vehicles. The Service also calls on population to follow the official newsfeed fo developments. 

Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan reports that  50 or more  Azerbaijani servicemen who have blocked the interstate road leading from Goris to Kapan near the village of Davit Bek, refuse to open the road. 

“These actions are criminal, restricting the free movement of people, the entire civilian population, including children, women, and the elderly. We have received alarms confirming all of this from civilians, and we have verified everything.

I warn so very much about this danger and state that the state should act and do so urgently. The presence of Azerbaijani armed servicemen on the roads between Syunik communities of the Republic of Armenia is criminal act, period. It, in and of itself violates people’s right to life, to free movement, and to other internationally guaranteed vital rights,” Tatoyan wrote on his Facebook page. 

In his words, it is obvious from the facts that this is a pre-planned and an openly and hostile act. It is a crime against the civilian population of the Republic of Armenia.

“I am aware that the Russian border guards, Armenian border guards conducted negotiations on the spot to open the road, and through their efforts civilian cars were taken out of the roadblock. According to the verified data, the negotiations will continue in the morning. Thus far they continue the refuse opening the road. Early in the morning, special reports on this incident will be sent to the relevant international bodies,” added the Ombudsman.

A serviceman of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have been detained in one of houses in Artsakh’s Martakert town. The report was shared on Facebook by expert Alen Ghulyan. According to him, the serviceman, identified as tank-man Jamil Babayev, was found in one of residential houses and was later detained by police officers. Ghulyan has also shared photos and a video showing the serviceman’s detention. 

Later, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Artsakh Republic released a statement, confirming the detention of the Azeri serviceman. According to the official clarification, Babayev has been found in one of the houses on Teryan street in Martakert town. 

A criminal case has been initiated and charges on illegal crossing of the Artsakh Republic border, threat to murder to minors living in the house and espionage were brought against him. Babayev is arrested, an investigation is underway. 

The command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent for the first time organized a mobile visiting reception in remote villages of the Martakert region of Artsakh. As the Russian Defense Ministry reported, in the district hospital Vank was deployed a mobile reception center for citizens was placed, which operates a “hot line” to collect information to search for missing servicemen, to provide humanitarian assistance, assistance in employment and other problematic topics.

In total, more than 800 people turned to the reception point for help. In particular, more than 400 requests were received by the phone hotline, the source said. 

Military doctors of the medical detachment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, as part of a medical campaign in a local hospital, conducted a consultative appointment and provided qualified medical assistance to 150 residents of Vank city.

In addition to working with appeals, the officers of the Humanitarian Response Centre provided more than 200 people from large families and internally displaced persons with medicines, food kits, basic necessities, warm clothes and children’s toys with a total weight of about 5 tons.

The Azerbaijani serviceman arrested earlier today at one of houses in Artsakh’s Martakert town has occurred not by an accident, Wargonzo Telegram channel reports. 

Citing own sources, the Channel insists that numerous photos and videos were revealed in the phone of the arrested, showing the location of various military objects of the Russian peacekeeping continent and the movement of Russian military equipment. 

As reported earlier, a serviceman of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, identified as tank-man Jamil Babayev, was found in one of residential houses in Martakert town and was later detained by police officers. 

A criminal case has been initiated and charges on illegal crossing of the Artsakh Republic border, threat to murder to minors living in the house and espionage were brought against him. Babayev is arrested, an investigation is underway.