“For almost a week the people have been resisting the Azerbaijani-Turkish terrorist attack.
Its scale is unprecedented, ”he said in his address, quoted by RIA Novosti.
For his part, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that Baku "is categorically against the escalation of this conflict into a regional conflict."
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported about "stubborn fierce battles" in the northern and southern directions in Nagorno-Karabakh.
They also noted that the Armenian side shot down three planes.
At the same time, the head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, Colonel Vagif Dargahli, stated that "not a single combat aircraft of the Azerbaijani Air Force was shot down."
On October 1, the presidents of Russia, the United States and France, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, adopted a joint statement on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The leaders "condemn in the strongest terms the escalation of violence taking place on the line of contact in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict."