Shushi: Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry on Monday shared video footage allegedly showing ethnic Armenian forces being targeted and destroyed in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A statement issued by the Ministry claimed Azerbaijani forces have destroyed a mortar unit and its crew in Ulu Galabey.
The Ministry also claimed its troops have destroyed units in Shushi.
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Shushi is of significant military value because it sits on heights about 10 kilometres (six miles) south of the region’s capital of Stepanakert and lies along the main road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia.
Along with its strategic value, Shushi is culturally significant as a onetime centre of Azerbaijani culture noted for music and poets.
Armenian authorities said its forces repelled attacks targeted at the towns of Martuni, Martakert and Tagavard.
Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian government since 1994 at the end of a separatist war following the breakup of the Soviet Union three years earlier.
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The latest outbreak of fighting started on September 27 and has left hundreds, if not thousands, dead.
AP
