The work on restoring the buildings damaged as a result of the adversary’s artillery shelling in border settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh – Martsakert, Mataghis and Talish – as well as the assessments of extent of damages has been launched.

Hunan Tadevosyan, person in charge of public relations at Karabakh Ministry of Urban Development, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent.  

“The Ministry of Urban Development has allocated significant amount of construction materials. Roofs are restored in Martakert. There are houses, whose walls have been damaged by Grad rocket launcher. The [Martakert] school has been restored, while the one in Mataghis will be ready tomorrow,” he said.

According to Tadevosyan, Talish has suffered most of all. Although restoration work is underway there, the extent of damages is still being ascertained.

The Ministry representative noted that the information on the affected citizens has been submitted to the working group of the Karabakh Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

“The damages will be compensated by the government, as well as certain benevolent organizations,” he said.

The final information on the amounts of damages will be published later, he noted. According to the current information almost all of the buildings in Talish have been damaged. Overall 60 buildings have been damaged in Martakert, 7 of them seriously. The buildings in Mataghis have also been slightly damaged.