Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense has released footage from a stronghold abandoned by the Armenians in the territory of the Khojaly region, Report informs citing the Ministry.
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#Patrushev vs. #Kadyrov. The time of unrest is coming
Last night, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev insisted on holding an urgent online meeting with the participation of Russian President Vladimir
#Putin. In addition to Patrushev and Putin, three more representatives of the leadership of the security bloc took part in the meeting. The reason for the urgent convening of such a representative team was the release of a video recording of Ramzan Kadyrov’s son beating Nikita Zhuravel, who is accused of burning the Koran. The video recording caused not only a wide public outcry but also the indignation of Nikolai Patrushev, who, despite the president’s poor health, insisted on the need for an urgent meeting. In fact, Patrushev held this meeting, giving Putin the opportunity only to say hello. The Secretary of the Security Council provided a video recording in advance, which he gathered to discuss, and all participants in the meeting, including the president, became familiar with it shortly before the start of the conversation. Patrushev immediately began with complaints against Putin, accusing him of the fact that with the connivance of the president, a situation became possible where the leadership of Chechnya openly ignores the laws of the Russian Federation and does it demonstratively and brazenly. The Secretary of the Security Council harshly criticized Putin and chided the president for more than fifteen minutes, giving reasons for each reproach. During his speech, Patrushev addressed Putin on a first-name basis, using expressions in relation to the president such as “you must be an idiot” and “what a cretin you have to be to allow this.” At the end of his speech, the Secretary of the Security Council said to the president: “You don’t care, you don’t listen to anyone, you’re practically gone, and we have to clean up all this after you.” Putin listened to Patrushev with a downcast look and, without giving anyone else the floor and, without speaking himself, closed the meeting. The hostility of the leadership of the security bloc led by Patrushev towards the current leadership of Chechnya has a long history, but Putin has always balanced the situation by acting as the centre of the balance of power. Now, the balance is broken. The time of unrest is coming.
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Рамзан Кадыров поддержал своего сына Адама, избившего арестованного по обвинению в сожжении Корана Никиту Журавеля
В телеграм-канале Кадырова опубликовано пятисекундное видео, на котором его сын набрасывается на Журавеля и начинает его битьhttps://t.co/Dspj0UYvCV
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Kadyrov released a video of his teenage son Adam attacking Nikita Zhuravlev, who had been arrested for burning a Koran. Kadyrov says Adam did the right thing. https://t.co/oIzg7APBMX
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A meeting was held in Brussels between the Armenia’s Secretary of Security Council Armen Grigoryan and Advisor to Azerbaijan’s President on Foreign Policy Hikmet Hajiyev. The meeting was attended by the diplomatic advisors of the French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Georgian crisis, Toivo Klaar, the press secretary of the President of the European Council reported.
The press release reads as follows:
“Under the auspices of President Michel, his Diplomatic Advisers Simon Mordue and Magdalena Grono hosted a meeting between Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan and Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev, with the participation of Diplomatic Advisers to FR President Macron and DE Chancellor Scholz, Emmanuel Bonne and Jens Ploetner, as well as EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar.
President Michel joined the participants for a brief exchange.
The EU invited participants to exchange views on the current situation on the ground and various efforts aimed at addressing the urgent needs of the local population.
The European Union closely follows all these developments and has been engaged at the highest level to help alleviate the impact of hostilities on civilians. The EU reiterated in this context its position on Azerbaijan’s military operation last week.
Hikmet Hajiyev outlined Azerbaijan’s plans to provide humanitarian assistance and security to the local population. The EU stressed the need for transparency and access for international humanitarian and human rights actors and for more detail on Baku’s vision for Karabakh Armenians’ future in Azerbaijan. The EU is providing assistance to Karabakh Armenians.
The meeting also allowed for intense exchanges between participants on the relevance of a possible meeting of the leaders in the framework of the Third EPC Summit scheduled for 5 October 2023 in Granada.
The participants took note of the shared interest of Armenia and Azerbaijan to make use of the possible meeting in Granada to continue their normalisation efforts.
In this regard, Armen Grigoryan and Hikmet Hajiyev engaged in talks on possible concrete steps to advance the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process in the upcoming possible meeting, such as those with regard to border delimitation, security, connectivity, humanitarian issues, and the broader peace treaty.
Concrete action and decisive compromise solutions are needed on all tracks of the normalisation process.
The EU believes that the possible meeting in Granada should be used by both Yerevan and Baku to reiterate publicly their commitment to each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty in line with agreements reached previously in Prague and Brussels.”
LONDON — At least 125 people were killed in an explosion on Monday night at a makeshift gas station being used by ethnic Armenian refugees as thousands sought to flee the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to local authorities, as senior U.S. officials visited Armenia to signal concern over the humanitarian crisis affecting the region’s civilians.
Dozens of people are in a critical condition with severe burns and in urgent need of evacuation from the enclave where medical assistance was already minimal, the health ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh’s unrecognized ethnic Armenia government, the Republic of Artsakh, said in a statement. It said many people were still missing following the blast.
The explosion and fire ripped through the fuel store on Monday night as hundreds of refugees were lining up for gas for their vehicles to leave Nagorno-Karabakh, according to local officials.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians have been leaving the enclave following a successful military offensive last week by Azerbaijan that defeated the local Armenian authorities and restored Azerbaijan’s rule over the region.
Over 28,000 people have crossed from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia since Sunday, according to a statement from Armenia’s government. It’s feared the enclave’s entire population — estimated at 120,000 — may seek to flee in the coming days.
Armenia’s prime minister on Monday said what was happening was the “ethnic cleansing” of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population.
Long traffic jams of people seeking to leave were visible snaking miles along the only road out of Nagorno-Karabakh to a checkpoint in the “Lachin Corridor” that links the enclave to Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been at the center of a decadeslong conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Internationally recognized as Azerbaijan’s territory, the two countries fought a bloody war over the enclave amid the collapse of the Soviet Union, in which Armenia backed local ethnic Armenian separatists, who succeeded in establishing control over most of the region. Hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani civilians were driven from the region during that war.
Azerbaijan reopened the conflict in 2020, launching a full-scale war that decisively defeated Armenia and forced it to largely abandon its claims to Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia helped broker a truce and dispatched a peacekeeping force there that remains deployed. Last week, Azerbaijan launched a new offensive that swiftly forced the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian’s leadership to surrender.
Since then thousands of ethnic Armenians have been preparing to leave the enclave, which has been under Azerbaijani blockade for nine months, unwilling to live under Azerbaijan’s rule and fearing they will face persecution.
Western countries, including the United States, France and Germany, have expressed concern for Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population and warned Azerbaijan it bears responsibility for their rights and security.
The Biden administration has dispatched Samantha Power, currently administrator of USAID and senior another State Department official to Armenia to express U.S. support for the country amid the crisis.
Power on Tuesday visited the checkpoint at Armenia’s border with Nagorno-Karabakh where refugees have been arriving, and called for international monitors and aid groups to be given access to the enclave and for Azerbaijan to facilitate the evacuation of injured civilians from there.
“It is absolutely critical that independent monitors as well as humanitarian organizations get access to the people in Nagorno-Karabakh who still have dire needs,” Power told journalists at the checkpoint. “There are still tens of thousands of Ethnic Armenians there living in very vulnerable conditions,” announcing the U.S. would provide $11.5 million in humanitarian assistance that would include everything from food to psychiatric support.
Power, who has been a high-profile campaigner for human rights, said she was in Armenia to also hear testimonies from people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh and that she would be reporting back to the Biden Administration as it considers how to respond to the crisis.
Power and the Acting Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Yuri Kim met with Armenia’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday. Power delivered a letter from President Joe Biden in which he expressed condolences for the loss of life in Nagorno-Karabakh and promised help on addressing humanitarian needs.
“I have asked Samantha Power, a key member of my cabinet, to personally convey to you the strong support of the United States and my Administration for Armenia’s pursuit of a dignified and durable regional peace that maintains your sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and democracy,” the letter read.
Pashinyan told Power the international community and Armenia had failed to prevent the “ethnic cleansing” of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians.
“Unfortunately, at the moment the process of the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh is continuing, it is happening right now. It’s a very tragic fact. We tried to inform the international community that this ethnic cleansing would happen, but, unfortunately, we did not manage to prevent it,” Pashinyan told Power and Yuri Kim, the State Department’s acting assistant secretary for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, according to the prime minister’s press service.
Armenia and Azerbaijan were due to hold talks mediated by the European Union in Brussels on Tuesday, the first talks between the sides since Azerbaijan’s retook Nagorno-Karabakh.
Monday’s blast at the fuel station added a horrific complication to the exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh, with local authorities pleading for people to hold off leaving as the traffic-choking the roads out was preventing the evacuation of the severely injured.
Helicopters from Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, were reported to have flown to Nagorno-Karabakh to help evacuate some of the worst injured. A long line of ambulances was also filmed by Russian media crossing into the enclave.
The enclave’s Armenian health authorities said the hospitals in the enclave, already short of medicine and other equipment, were not equipped for the disaster.
Russia’s peacekeeping contingent said it was also providing medical assistance and showed videos of its soldiers evacuating some of the injured.
A meeting was held in Brussels between the Armenia’s Secretary of Security Council Armen Grigoryan and Advisor to Azerbaijan’s President on Foreign Policy Hikmet Hajiyev. The meeting was attended by the diplomatic advisors of the French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Georgian crisis, Toivo Klaar, the press secretary of the President of the European Council reported.
The press release reads as follows:
“Under the auspices of President Michel, his Diplomatic Advisers Simon Mordue and Magdalena Grono hosted a meeting between Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan and Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev, with the participation of Diplomatic Advisers to FR President Macron and DE Chancellor Scholz, Emmanuel Bonne and Jens Ploetner, as well as EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar.
President Michel joined the participants for a brief exchange.
The EU invited participants to exchange views on the current situation on the ground and various efforts aimed at addressing the urgent needs of the local population.
The European Union closely follows all these developments and has been engaged at the highest level to help alleviate the impact of hostilities on civilians. The EU reiterated in this context its position on Azerbaijan’s military operation last week.
Hikmet Hajiyev outlined Azerbaijan’s plans to provide humanitarian assistance and security to the local population. The EU stressed the need for transparency and access for international humanitarian and human rights actors and for more detail on Baku’s vision for Karabakh Armenians’ future in Azerbaijan. The EU is providing assistance to Karabakh Armenians.
The meeting also allowed for intense exchanges between participants on the relevance of a possible meeting of the leaders in the framework of the Third EPC Summit scheduled for 5 October 2023 in Granada.
The participants took note of the shared interest of Armenia and Azerbaijan to make use of the possible meeting in Granada to continue their normalisation efforts.
In this regard, Armen Grigoryan and Hikmet Hajiyev engaged in talks on possible concrete steps to advance the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process in the upcoming possible meeting, such as those with regard to border delimitation, security, connectivity, humanitarian issues, and the broader peace treaty.
Concrete action and decisive compromise solutions are needed on all tracks of the normalisation process.
The EU believes that the possible meeting in Granada should be used by both Yerevan and Baku to reiterate publicly their commitment to each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty in line with agreements reached previously in Prague and Brussels.”
High-level government representatives from Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Brussels on Tuesday to further discuss the normalization of relations between the two countries, as tens of thousands of Armenians fled Artsakh after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack there last week, killing and injuring hundreds and displacing thousands of civilians.
The meeting in Brussels was attended by Armenian National Security chief Armen Grigorian and the chief advisor to Azerbaijan’s president, Hikmet Hajiyev who were joined by advisors of the French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Georgian crisis, Toivo Klaar, a press statement reported.
Hajiyev called the talks “quite constructive.”
“Now there are more opportunities to move towards the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations,” Hajiyev said, according to Reuters.
In a statement issued after the meeting the European Union reiterated its strong opposition to last week’s attack on Artsakh by Azerbaijani forces. Nevertheless, it said, “concrete action and decisive compromise solutions are needed on all tracks of the normalization process.”
The EU also said there was an imperative for both sides to reiterated their stated commitment to recognize each other’s territorial integrity.
The statement said that Yerevan and Baku could use an upcoming meeting in Granada, Spain “to reiterate publicly their commitment to each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty in line with agreements reached previously in Prague and Brussels.”
According to the statement, Hajiyev outlined Azerbaijan’s plans to provide humanitarian assistance and security to the local population.
“The EU stressed the need for transparency and access for international humanitarian and human rights actors and for more detail on Baku’s vision for Karabakh Armenians’ future in Azerbaijan. The EU is providing assistance to Karabakh Armenians,” the statement said.
The participants took note of the shared interest of Armenia and Azerbaijan to make use of the possible meeting in Granada to continue their normalization efforts.
“In this regard, Armen Grigoryan and Hikmet Hajiyev engaged in talks on possible concrete steps to advance the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process in the upcoming possible meeting, such as those with regard to border delimitation, security, connectivity, humanitarian issues, and the broader peace treaty,” the EU statement added.
Sixty-eight people have been confirmed dead as a result of the fuel depot blast near Stepanakert, Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender informs. Only 21 bodies have been identified.
The number of wounded citizens is 290, of which 168 were transported to Armenia’s medical institutions today by helicopters of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian peacekeepers and ambulances, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
According the Ombudsman, 105 people are still missing.
