Stepanakert residents follow a call to hide in shelters from shelling attacks

In Stepanakert, city residents were hiding from night shelling attacks in shelters. Today, air-raid sirens also call on the city residents to hide from new shelling attacks.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on September 27, fights broke out in the Karabakh conflict zone.

Today, the combat actions have been continued along the entire line of contact. This has been reported at 12:00 a.m. Moscow time by Vagram Pogosyan, the press secretary for the President of Nagorno-Karabakh. According to him, the Azerbaijani side continues shelling attacks on peaceful villages and cities, including Hadrut and Martuni.

Together with the Azerbaijani army, Turkish soldiers and mercenaries from extremist groupings are participating in the hostilities, Vagram Pogosyan reports with reference to the intelligence data.

Today, the Armenian Ambassador to Russia has reported that about 4000 militants were sent from Turkey to Azerbaijan. In turn, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan claims that militants from the Middle East take part in the combat actions on the side of Armenia.

In the early morning, new shelling attacks came, residents of Stepanakert told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "It was a tense night. We sent our youngest ones to shelters, while my husband and I stayed at home. Early in the morning, we heard that the combat actions had started again. We are very worried about our grandchildren who serve in the army. We have not received any news from them since yesterday," pensioner Zoya Grigoryan stated.

In the morning, in Stepanakert, the air-raid sirens sounded several times, urging local residents to go down to shelters. The Internet access is periodically cut off for a long time, and there are also interruptions in mobile communication, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 28, 2020 at 02:35 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.