According to President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan has taken the strategically important city of Shushi in the embattled Nagorno Karabakh. „I am proud to announce that the city of Shushi has been liberated from the Armenian occupation,“ Aliyev said today. Shuschi is considered a key city. Initially, there was no confirmation from Armenia that the city had been lost.
The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh had themselves announced that the loss of Shushi (Azerbaijani: Susa) ultimately also meant a defeat in the fight for the entire region. “Shuschi is ours! Karabakh is ours! ”President Aliyev said in a speech, according to the media in Baku.
“The fighting continues in Shuschi. Wait and believe in our armed forces, ”said the spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Arzrun Owannissijan, in Yerevan. Nagorno-Karabakh had previously reported intense fighting.
Shushi is about ten kilometers from Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliyev announced that he would go to the end. He had already reported major territorial gains yesterday.
