Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the breaking news as of 21.09.22:

  • Azerbaijani Armed Forces units violated the ceasefire late on Tuesday with certain regularity, using small arms in the eastern direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

The Defense Ministry told NEWS.am that as of 10:30 p.m., the situation on the border was stable and there was no shooting.

The Armenian side has one injured as a result of the shootings on Tuesday evening by the Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of Srashen village of Syunik Province.

 

As of 8:30am, there is no change in the situation on the frontline with Azerbaijan. Armenian defense ministry spokesperson Aram Torosyan told reporters on Wednesday.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Yerablur Military Pantheon in Yerevan on the occasion of the Independence Day anniversary.

President Vahagn Khachaturyan, National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan, numerous other officials, and several MPs of the ruling force were also at Yerablur.

There are many police forces there, they have formed a human chain and do not allow anyone to approach that area.

Pashinyan stayed at Yerablur for only a few minutes and quickly left.

Shortly after that, a large number of police forces also left the area.

A huge police force has been concentrated at Yerablur Military Pantheon since early this morning. At some point, special police forces began dragging into custody the parents of the fallen servicemen, including the women, who had come there to prevent Nikol Pashinyan from visiting Yerablur on the occasion of the Independence Day anniversary.

The police also hindered the work of reporters and cameramen by pushing them down from the part of the Yerablur church.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has released a press statement Wednesday on the occasion of Armenia's Independence Day anniversary.

“We will continue to support the Armenian people’s democratic aspirations, sovereignty, and security,” he noted in a statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has also issued a statement.

“We attach great importance to friendly, allied relations with Armenia,” Putin said.

  • The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention condemned in the strongest terms the atrocities committed by Azerbaijanis against Armenian servicemen, especially against servicewomen, during Azerbaijan's latest aggression against Armenia.

In a statement, the institute called on governments around the world to condemn Azerbaijan and call on the international media to accurately report on the campaign of terror.

"In case one is tempted to make the mistake of thinking that these atrocities are isolated events, the Lemkin Institute wishes to point out the terroristic pattern that ties these atrocities to anti-Armenianism practiced in Azerbaijan, in Turkey, and by the Grey Wolves terrorist organization that is supported by both of these states,” the statement said.

It was Russia's first such mobilization since World War Two and signified the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow's Feb. 24 ‘special operation’.

Putin noted in his address to the citizens that the measure of partial mobilization was taken in order to protect Russia, its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the Russian people.

Russia has a huge mobilization resource, 300,000 reservists will be called up during partial mobilization, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, in turn, noted.

Meanwhile, tickets for flights from Moscow to Istanbul, Yerevan, Baku and other cities in neighboring countries have run out after the announcement of partial mobilization in Russia.