Artsakh Foreign Minister Sergey Ghazaryan’s comment:

“Recently, on a daily basis, the Azerbaijani side has carried out army movements and accumulations of various weapons, which were accompanied by intensive information and propaganda activities, preparing the ground for a large-scale aggression against Artsakh.

The Artsakh side has continuously warned all actors about the undeniable fact of Azerbaijan’s unprecedented accumulation of military power and possible provocations after the 2020 war, including in the hope of preventing large-scale military operations.

As you know, during the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani side has spread misinformation that the Artsakh side allegedly carried out sabotage operations and shelled the Azerbaijani positions.

And a little later, they spread information that they started a so-called “anti-terrorist operation”, which proves that all these steps were planned in advance. This fits perfectly with the reports of the Armenian side about the genocidal actions of Azerbaijan against Artsakh and its people in recent months.

Now we are witnessing how Azerbaijan, in the implementation of its genocidal policy, moves to the physical annihilation of the civilian population and the destruction of civilian objects.

We have repeatedly informed the international actors that it is impossible to restrain such bellicose and criminal attitude of Azerbaijan with appeals. We demand that the international community take effective steps in a very short period of time to stop Azerbaijan’s aggression,” the statement reads.