Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the daily digest of Armenia-related top news as of 15.11.21:

  • On November 14, at around 1pm, units of the Azerbaijani armed forces—with the support of armored vehicles—invaded the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia (RA) in one of the eastern sections of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. The Security Council of Armenia noted this in a statement it issued Monday. The statement continues as follows:

"As a result of the actions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, four combat positions of the Armenian Armed Forces had ended up in a blockade. As a result of negotiations, the Azerbaijani military equipment and troops that invaded the RA sovereign territory came out of the RA territory, the units of the RA Armed Forces were taken out from the above-mentioned four combat positions. Nevertheless, the Azerbaijani servicemen who invaded the RA sovereign territory back in May of this year continue to be deployed in the mentioned section.

Reflecting on the Goris-Kapan and Kapan-Chakaten motorways’ sections under the control of Azerbaijan, the Council consider it necessary to emphasize that according to the documents of direct legal significance related to the borders of Armenia and Azerbaijan during the USSR years, they are not in the territory of the Republic of Armenia. The Government of the Republic of Armenia has taken measures to create a new network of alternative roads in Syunik Province, and these works will be completed in the near future.

  • The bodies for the Armenian servicemen killed and considered missing in the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war last fall were not searched last week, according to the Facebook page of the Artsakh State Service of Emergency Situations.

And this state agency is currently negotiating with all interested organizations to resume these works, the service added in its statement.

On November 13, the Artsakh State Service of Emergency Situations had announced that the search for the bodies had been suspended since October 18.

After that, the Azerbaijani side has rejected—under various pretexts—all the proposals by the Armenian side to resume the search operations.

A total of 1,697 bodies, including civilians, have been evacuated since November 13, 2020, as a result of searches in the occupied territories of Artsakh and the exchange of bodies with Azerbaijan.

Ever since November 13, 2020, a total of 1,697 remains of Armenians—including of civilians—have been retrieved as a result of search operations and exchange of dead bodies in the currently Azerbaijani-occupied territories of Artsakh.

  • As of Monday morning, 378 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Armenia, and the total number of these cases has reached 329,341 in the country.

Also, 39 more deaths from COVID-19 were registered, making the respective total 7,055 cases.

  • World No. 31st-ranked tennis player and Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Karen Khachanov (Russia) is in Yerevan these days.

Muscovite Armenian Khachanov on Sunday is meeting and holding a master class in the Armenian capital with Armenian tennis players.

NEWS.am Sport is live broadcasting the event.

A large number of teenagers, professional tennis players, and tennis fans have to meet with the world-famous Russian Armenian tennis star.