The United States expresses its concern about the escalation of violence along the Line of Contact that resulted in significant casualties on July 31. We extend our condolences to the families of those killed or injured and call on the sides to take immediate action to reduce tensions and respect the cease-fire. There can be no military solution to the conflict. Retaliation and further violence will only make it more difficult to bring about...
– Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, today deplored the intensifying crackdown on civil society in Azerbaijan and called on authorities to quickly reverse the trend.
Armenia’s Ministry of Defense reports that Azerbaijan today heavily shelled the Armenian village of Barekamavan in Tavoush Province.
The Artsakh Defense Army (ADA) reports that an Azerbaijani military unit again attempted to infiltrate the line of contact in the early morning hours today and that one Armenian soldier and three Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in the ensuing firefight.
In its latest communique, the ADA now claims that five Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and three wounded in the Martakert firefight and that two more were killed and four wounded in a separate skirmish in the Martouni region.