Azerbaijani Defense Ministry refutes information about shelling Armenian territory

Information about the alleged shelling of the territory of Armenia by Azerbaijan using UAVs and missile-artillery systems is false and provocative, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

According to the ministry, Azerbaijan fully complies with the new humanitarian truce.

"Vice versa, on October 27, since 09:30 (GTM +4), the Armenian side has been intensively firing at Azerbaijani territories in the direction of the Aghbend settlement, Zangilan district from mortars," the ministry said.

The Armenian armed forces committed a large-scale provocation, subjecting the positions of the Azerbaijani army to intensive shelling from large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery installations of various calibers in the front-line zone on Sept. 27 at 05:00 (Msk). The command of the Azerbaijani Army decided to launch a counter-offensive operation of Azerbaijani troops along the entire front to suppress the combat activity of the Armenian armed forces and ensure the safety of the civilian population. To date, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts, including the cities of Jabrayil and Fizuli, the city of Zangilan and part of Zangilan district, part of the Gubaldi region, the city of Gubadli, the city of Hadrut and a number of villages in the Khojavend region, the villages of Sugovushan and Talish in the Terter region, as well as the strategically important Murovdag mountain were liberated.