Armenian Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations, Major General Astvatsatur Petrosyan said that the Armenian troops opened a humanitarian corridor for civilian population during the Khojaly operation. “The corridor remained open for a long time, so that the Azerbaijani special sub-units managed to take advantages of it, entering Khojaly,” Mr. Petrosyan told a press conference in Yerevan.

According to him, the shots that Azerbaijan provides to prove the so-called genocide were done during the wars in Chechnya and Afghanistan. Petrosyan added that Azerbaijan is exploiting the Khojaly operation, as there was civilian population in this village, for which a humanitarian corridor was opened.