News, reports, photos / videos on military actions in Karabakh for September 28, 2020

Thousands of volunteers have already joined the ranks of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army, Karabakh President Arayik Harutyunyan wrote on his Facebook page.

According to the president, despite the announced mobilization, volunteers come to military registration and enlistment office before summons are sent to them.

“There are many arriving from Armenia, there are thousands of applications from the Diaspora.”

On September 28 it became known that the Armenians from Javakheti (Georgia) want to volunteer to go to Karabakh.

Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians from Russia are also ready to take part in hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, said the leader of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan.

“Today we already have data on about twenty thousand such volunteers. But we tell them: there is no such need yet,” Abrahamyan said.

To help Karabakh, a collection of humanitarian aid was also organized in Yerevan. Mostly people bring medicines, personal care items, cigarettes, food and drinking water.

With the help of the boxes, people write words of support for the soldiers: “Brothers, we are with you”, “We will win”, “The Turks will fail again.”

The press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan reported that two brothers, Khalig and Elshan Abbasov, were killed as a result of cannon strikes by the Armenian armed forces on the Shikh Arkh settlement of the Terter region of Azerbaijan.

Two more people were injured.

Eight civilians killed, 14 injured – this is the official information in Azerbaijan regarding the victims of the military actions in Karabakh, which began on the morning of September 27.

There is no official information about casualties among the military. The Khazar Investigation Center reported the deaths of 11 Azerbaijani servicemen.

View from the village of Shikh Arkh:

A few key points of his half-hour speech:

“The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – the United States, Russia and France – have not been able to resolve the conflict for almost 30 years. On the contrary, they are doing everything they can to prolong the problem.

And now these same countries are trying to teach the parties to the conflict, and from time to time they even threaten. Azerbaijan has already listened to you for 30 years, hoping for an early settlement. But whose lands are occupied? Lands of Azerbaijan! This fact is also recognized by the co-chair countries.

Is Turkey involved in the conflict? Are there Turkish soldiers in the conflict zone [in Karabakh]?

These questions are being asked by those who have delivered thousands of trucks of arms to northern Syria. They divided northern Syria into sectors, created military bases there […] And now these same people are asking questions about the presence of Turkish troops and the supply of Turkish weapons in the Caucasus. What is this distorted view? As if President Ilham Aliyev is obliged to give them a report.

More than a million refugees and internally displaced persons live in Azerbaijan far from their homes. At the same time, no one demands a demand from the occupier – in the person of Armenia.

Azerbaijan said “Enough! It’s time to call to account ”- and solves problems on his own.

The time has come to end the crisis in the region, which began with the Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent regions of Azerbaijan.

The immediate release of the occupied lands of Azerbaijan will open the way for peace and stability in the region.

Any other initiatives and attempts to force the parties to a settlement are illegal and unjust, and correspond only to the interests of Armenia.”

The city of Martuni in Nagorno-Karabakh has become the main target for Azerbaijani shelling over the past two days. From time to time the siren sounds here.

It was here that on September 27, during the shelling of the Azerbaijani armed forces, a grandmother and her minor granddaughter were killed, and several people were injured of varying severity.

The city lives without electricity and gas.

This is what Martuni looks now.

A new official list of names of 28 victims of military clashes on September 28 has been published in Karabakh. Most of them are between the ages of 18 and 22.

A total of 59 people have been killed on the Armenian side.

There is no official data on the deaths of the Azerbaijani military, only information about 11 dead, which the Azerbaijani Khazar Research Center compiled on the basis of publications in social networks.

The Defense Ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan mutually refute each other’s reports of hundreds of deaths on the other side.

The spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry reports: “Parts of the Defense Army are successfully carrying out retaliatory actions in some areas.

The morale of our servicemen is high.”

Shushan Stepanyan also published a new video of the destroyed Azerbaijani military equipment.

A spokeswoman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that there is reliable evidence for this. Side by side with the Azerbaijani military, according to Anna Naghdalyan, Turkish military instructors are fighting who are using Turkish weapons – unmanned aerial vehicles, military aircraft.

The press secretary stated that Turkey has moved from the land blockade of Armenia to direct involvement in hostilities.

Military expert Artsrun Hovhannisyan reports that the Armenian Armed Forces managed to improve their positions over night. However, the Azerbaijani side continues its counterattack: “Early in the morning with the use of artillery, including heavy artillery, units of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan resumed offensive operations. The fighting will continue.”

Hovhannisyan also said that the Azerbaijani side did not ask to take the bodies of its soldiers:

“The Defense Army has published a video showing the bodies of dead Azerbaijani soldiers. It was officially announced that there are several dozen bodies left on our side ”.

When asked if he confirmed the news of the capture of Azerbaijani general Mais Barkhudarov, Hovhannisyan replied that there are no living soldiers on the Armenian side at the moment.

“But since there are many bodies of Azerbaijani servicemen, I cannot definitively deny or confirm anything.”

(Video of the wreckage of a drone of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, shot down on Sunday near the city of Vardenis, Gegharkunik region of Armenia)

Military expert Artsrun Hovhannisyan reported that Azerbaijan has been bombing settlements, in particular, the city of Martakert. He called reports from Azerbaijan that hundreds of people were killed on the Armenian side a lie: “All confirmed data are added to the names … We report everyone. We certainly don’t have hundreds of victims.” However, Hovhannisyan reported 200 injured. They are housed in various military hospitals as well as civilian hospitals.

The Ministry of Defense of Nagorno-Karabakh reports that intense fighting continued at night on the line of contact.

“As a result of the counterattack of units of the Defense Army, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment, and the Defense Army has restored a number of previously lost positions,” the message says.

Since September 27, access to the Internet has been disconnected throughout Azerbaijan for users of state operators Baktelekom and Aztelekom – “to prevent a large-scale provocation of Armenia.”

The rest of the providers work in limited capacity – access to instant messengers in social networks and some social media (for example, Instagram) are closed.

Many people are trying to connect to the internet using VPN services.

AZAL Airlines reported that until September 30 the airports of Azerbaijan will stop receiving regular passenger flights.

In Karabakh, an official list of the names of 31 victims of the September 27 military clashes has been published.  Most of them are between the ages of 18 and 22.

There is no official data on the deaths of the Azerbaijani military, only information about 11 dead, which the Azerbaijani Khazar Research Center compiled on the basis of publications on social media.  At least five of them are between the ages of 18 and 22.

The Defense Ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan mutually refute each other’s reports of hundreds of deaths on the other side.

Late in the evening on September 27, in the Salyan region of Azerbaijan (120 km from Baku), the funeral of 21-year-old deceased Azerbaijani soldier Elmir Mammadov took place. He was a graduate of the Oil Academy.

Video from social media of mourners receiving his body:

https://www.facebook.com/100006371827488/videos/2552550094967360/?extid=0oMl0kAvhgsHcEJS

• News, reports, photos / videos on military operations in Karabakh for September 27, 2020

At 6 am on September 27, large-scale military operations began around Nagorno-Karabakh and on the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia. Both military and civilian casualties on both sides have been reported.