Blogger Alexander Lapshin wrote on his Facebook page:

“Sometimes I have the feeling that Ilham Aliyev is kept completely isolated in the presidential palace, he does not know what is happening at all. I have almost zero confidence in the Azerbaijani media, but when I read that they had captured the village of Mataghis, I was worried. This village is located on the key road to Talish. And I know several families in Talish, do they have problems?

I called and heard a happy voice asking me how I was doing. With me. I’m fine, I ask, how are they? They say shots are heard, many houses are damaged, but they are standing. The children were taken out, the adults were left. Yesterday, the Azeris almost entered the village, they were nearby, but they threw them back to the front line, now everything is fine. Mataghis is also good, they did not take any prisoners. I tell them that the Azerbaijani media write that your village has been captured and even renamed Sugovusha. They laugh and say, let them immediately change the name of the village in Baku, why waste time on details.

“Eh, it’s enough to torture the sultan, turn on the internet for him, otherwise my uncle is completely in a trance,” Lapshin wrote.