STEPANAKERT. - The losses among the civilian population favor the ruling regime in Azerbaijan, Spokesperson for the President of the Artsakh Republic (Nagorno-Karabakh/NKR) David Babayan said in an interview with The Associated Press.

On his Facebook page he posted an excerpt from the interview, which reads as follows:

“A spokesman for Nagorno-Karabakh’s leader blamed Azerbaijan for the increased tensions, saying the mortars that hit Alkhanli were fired in response to Azerbaijani shelling.

“In fact, the losses among the civilian population favor the ruling regime in Azerbaijan. Thus, they try to distract the population from internal problems, intoxicate, aggravate the image of the ‘hated enemy’,” David Babayan told The Associated Press.”