YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has said that Azerbaijan had pre-planned its ongoing military attack on Artsakh.

“Recent aggressive statements of #Azerbaijan'i leadership, large-scale joint mil exercises w/#Turkey, as well as rejection of OSCE PRCiO monitoring requests clearly indicate this aggression was pre-planned and constitutes large-scale provocation against regional peace & security,” he tweeted.

In the early morning of September 27, the Azerbaijani military launched a massive attack on Artsakh using air force, missiles and tanks.  The Azerbaijani artillery strikes targeted civilian settlements, including Stepanakert city, which resulted in several civilians being killed. Schools were also bombed.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan