RA Ministry of Defense representative Artsrun Hovhannisyan writes:

“Very important! It is already the second day that the units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, not having sufficient capabilities to conduct effective offensive operations, have started to resort to obvious provocations.

In particular, in the southern direction of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani hostilities, the Azerbaijani units are gathering in large groups directly along the Artsakh-Iranian border (along the Araks River), in fact, taking refuge along that border, trying to move forward.

With this tactic, the Azerbaijani side is trying to provoke the Artsakh side to open fire or strike along the border, in the direction of Iran. It is not ruled out that as a result of hostilities, Azerbaijani units, having no alternative, will retreat or flee to Iranian territory. In order to avoid all this, we believe that the Iranian side, which certainly sees all this, should prevent or force to refrain from such gatherings.”