“The Armenian Defense Ministry officially informs that the statements of the Azerbaijani leadership about the attack on Mingechevir from the territory of Armenia is another disinformation.
Armenia did not fire on Azerbaijan, ”the press secretary of the republic’s military department Shushan Stepanyan TASS quoted.
Aide to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev said that the Armenian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on the industrial city of Azerbaijan, Mingechevir.
The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reported that the city of Terter was also subjected to shelling, several people were injured.
At the same time, the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic reported about the shelling of Stepanakert from Azerbaijan.
The press service of the president of the unrecognized republic clarified that in response to the shelling of Stepanakert, a military airfield in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja was destroyed.
Later they added that the NKR military was ordered to stop rocket attacks on Ganja targets so that there would be no casualties among the civilian population.
On October 1, the presidents of Russia, the United States and France, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, called for an immediate end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.