Armenia. 3 Azerbaijani aircraft shot down. Focus also on Karabakh's main city Stepanakert

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02 October 2020The Nagorno-Karabakh Air Defense Forces shot down three planes of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

The spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, wrote on Facebook.

The news was also reported by Interfax.

"The air defense forces shot down an enemy aircraft in the southeastern sector near the border with Iran at 12:15 and shot down two drones in the north sector at 12:07 and 12:10," the said. spokesman.

The fighting, said Stepanyan, continues in several sectors of the front, adding that "a large number of enemy personnel and tanks have been destroyed".

The main city in the breakaway territory of Nagorno Karabakh, Stepanakert, was "hit" by Azerbaijani forces.

The Armenian Ministry of Defense said so, reporting "many injured".

"There are many injuries in the civilian population, civilian infrastructure is damaged," a representative of the ministry, Artsroun Ovannissian, said on his Facebook page, without providing further details on these attacks and the damage.

Armenia said it is ready to negotiate a ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh with the mediation of the countries that make up the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or 'Osce.

This was stated by the Foreign Ministry in commenting on the joint statement released Thursday by the United States, Russia and France, countries that co-chair the Minsk Group, which called for an immediate end to military actions.

"We welcome the fact that the leaders of the OSCE Minsk Group countries have strongly condemned the use of force in the conflict zone in Nagorno Karabakh, reads a note in which Yerevan says he is in favor of the peaceful resolution of the conflict. . at the same time Erevan emphasizes its readiness to work with the Minsk Group for a cease-fire on the basis of the agreements of 1994-1995, but will "continue to reject the decision of Azerbaijan's aggression."

The two French journalists from Le Monde who were wounded yesterday in Nagorno Karabakh, while filming fleeing civilians, left Stepanakert, confirming the Quai d'Orsay in Paris.