“We urge people living in the respective cities and regions to comply with martial law and curfew requirements,” he said.

This decision must be approved by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev within 48 hours.

Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the government had introduced martial law in the country and announced a general mobilization of the reserve in connection with the aggravation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.