On October 28, a maternity hospital in Stepanakert city, the capital of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, was bombed.
Shushan Stepanyan, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, said the hospital was targeted by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, which have been leading a large attack on Nagorno-Karabakh for more than a month now. The Press Secretary didn’t provide any addition information on the incident.
Meanwhile, reporters of the Abkhazian Network News Agency, who witnessed the attack, said a warplane dropped four bombs with parachutes at the hospital.
ANNA reporter says he saw 4 bombs being parachuted down. That he’s sure this was an airstrike. Reports say they hit near the Maternity hospital and a school. He’s on his way to the locations. pic.twitter.com/jG0ONmd5Ns
— Razm.info (@razminfo) October 28, 2020
Photos from the strike scene showed heavy destruction as well as the remains of what appears to be a heavy rocket or missile. No human losses have been reported by Armenian sources, so far.
Aftermath of the Stepnakert hospital bombing/shelling posted by @KarabakhRecords pic.twitter.com/ZY1vxARRD4
— Razm.info (@razminfo) October 28, 2020
Artsakh authorities said that they are looking into reports indicating that Turkish F-16 fighter jets carried out the attack on Stepanakert maternity hospital
In an official statement, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan rejected the Armenian accusations, describing them as “deliberate misinformation.”
“With this information, the enemy is trying to divert the attention from the war crimes committed in the city of Barda,” the statement reads.
Barda was reportedly shelled by Armenian forces with BM-30 Smerch cluster rockets a few hours before the attack on Stepanakert maternity hospital. Azerbaijani Presidential Aide, Hikmet Hajiyev, claimed that 20 civilians were killed and more than 60 others were injured in the attack.
In Barda number of wounded reaching 20. Number of wounded reached 60. Armenia used cluster munitions to inflict excessive casualties among civilians. It is policy of state terror by Armenia. Delibarately city center of Barda was targeted. pic.twitter.com/ZJzk3bBUkZ
— Hikmet Hajiyev (@HikmetHajiyev) October 28, 2020
The bombing of Stepanakert maternity hospital was not the first attack on Armenian health facilities by Azerbaijan. On October 14, Azerbaijani warplanes bombed a military hospital in the Armenian-held town of Martakert.
The Armenian MoD will likely share more details about the attack on Stepanakert maternity hospital in the upcoming few hours and days.
After the massacre in Berde we will soon see a lot of videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmny9Gu6xjo
No losses, interesting. double tap perhaps. or all Armenians ran away. can’t keep foreign lands forever, smart Armenians.
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The press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office issued a new statement on Armenia’s missile launch in Barda. “On October 28, 2020, at about 13:00, 21 people were killed and about 70 people were killed by enemy armed forces using cluster bombs, which are prohibited by international law, in the densely populated area of Barda and where trade facilities are located. Injured, causing extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and vehicles in the city. In addition, another civilian, who was wounded by heavy artillery shelling in Garayusifli village of Barda region by the Armenian armed forces on October 27, 2020 at around 4 pm, died of his injuries at the hospital where he was being treated. The number of people killed as a result of crimes committed by the Armenian armed forces on May 27 has reached five. At present, the prosecutor’s office is working to clarify the list of victims, taking all possible investigative measures in the current situation. “
Thank you for the feedback about the visual content from Barda. We featured your comment. Best regards, SF Team
Why are you taking sides? Why you do not have this news.
Which brings us to the question is morality subjective or objective?
I call you unscrupulous admins of this site: Why don’t you show anything from Barda, where Armenians fired a banned missile ???
Look who is firing on civilians? Wild vandal Armenian terrorists. Armenia will be very sorry for such acts of genocide! https://baku.tv/az/#t=126
Because SF is pro Russia and against Azerbaijan….
This site is completely biased. They don’t show the facts.
The link you posted, pic.twitter.com/ZJzk3bBUkZ by @HikmetHajiyev’s has expired.
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I don’t get it
I think he means Erdogan is no stranger of censorship either :)
Seems the hospital was not in use but in construction gor improvements:
https://artsakhpress.am/eng/news/132083/improvement-works-of-stepanakerts-new-maternity-hospital-to-be-completed-by-the-end-of-october-minister-of-urban-planning.html
Those maternity hospital they are bragging about is a maternity hospital NOT. Why deceive people like this? I looked at the pictures carefully and it appears that the maternity hospital was nothing but an unfinished construction site. Even the windows hadn’t been installed and not a single room numbers or anything that might suggest it was a hospital appears. Armenians should be more creative if they want to appear like real victims, A BIG HEADLINE but nothing to show for. What a losers!!
Idiot. Didn’t look too hard did you. Go and look at the video with someone talking out front as people pick up broken glass. look at all the windows shattered with rements of glass in the frames from an explosion. Click on the four pictures and scroll down. Check the facts before bullshitting.
the idiot is you. Check that pictures yourself fool!
Nothing dumber than an idiot who can’t understand. I SAID LOOK AT THE VIDEO. Not the picture , the video which shows tons of broken glass everywhere and shattered windows which you can’t see by looking at the picture. Check the VIDEO Moron. As someone else shows the hospital was being refurbished so no patients. Everything you said was bullshit , now get over it. Oh , do LOOK at the VIDEO. No need to apologise for being WRONG .. !!!
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5377d1ee44efc7411187c60b9a23939c685c7a0144b9930a371ca674c36d8933.jpg Armenian millionaire’s letter to Pashkin shakes Armenia (PHOTO) WORLD 29.10.2020, 09:35 Sergey Ambartsumyan, an Armenian millionaire living in Russia, General Director of Monarch, Doctor of Technical Sciences, addressed an open letter to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The letter, which was spread in the Armenian media, fully clarified the situation in the country and caused a great resonance in society, Qaynarinfo reported citing axar.az. In an appeal titled “Option to get out of the impasse,” Ambartsumyan said in an appeal to Pashinyan that in 2018, the people followed him not because of your services, but because of his sincere protest against the previous government: “They followed you to live in a fairer and more promising world, in a pleasant and bright aura, and I’m sure you believed that too.” I am not a judge and I am not going to evaluate what has happened in the last 2.5 years – the people will evaluate it later. But you can confirm that the whole nation already sees that we are in a desperate situation, in a state of complete crisis. ” Recalling that they were in a difficult situation in 1992, but “won”, Ambartsumyan said that nothing could be done without Russia, so the director of the company suggested that Pashinyan resign immediately and hand over power to someone trusted by Russia. “It is clear that you are not able to solve the serious problems facing Armenia. You must hand over power to a leader who can consolidate the people in a critical situation.” In conclusion, Ambartsumyan noted that he is not involved in politics, but only offers it as a way out of the current impasse. It should be noted that the publication of the letter in the Armenian official media is already accepted as a recognition of the crisis of power and the country’s desperate situation. One of the issues currently being seriously discussed in Armenia is the handover of power by Pashkina to the military. This led to the spread of information about the preparations for a military coup in the army leadership. Nicole Pashina has fired several law enforcement officials, including security officials, in the past two days. It is believed that Pashinyan is very worried about the military coup.
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