Karabakh denies Aliyev claims of capturing HadrudOctober 9, 2020 - 18:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nagorno-Karabakh presidential spokesman Vahram Poghosyan has denied Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's claims that his army has captured the town of Hadrut. "The nonsense that Ilham Aliyev said about capturing Hadrut is as far from reality as the intimidated Azeri army is from Hadrut, i.e. tens of kilometers," Poghosyan said Friday, October 9. Armenian Defense Ministry representative Artsrun Hovhannisyan too denied Aliyev's claims. "I am in Hadrut right now, for some reason all I see is Armenians," Hovhannisyan wrote on Facebook. Immediately after Aliyev's address, Russian journalists from WarGonzo Telegram channel published a photo from Hadrut and said they had recently returned from the town which is under the Karabakh Defense Army's control.
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