⁍ Azerbaijan said its forces had captured a string of villages in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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⁍ Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Azeri capital Baku in celebration, waving flags and placards reading ‘Karabakh was and will be ours’
The death toll rose to at least 230 in the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.

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⁍ Each side said it had destroyed hundreds of the other’s tanks.

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– With fighting raging for a seventh day in the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan on Saturday claimed it had captured a string of villages. “Today the Azeri army raised the flag of Azerbaijan in Madagiz,” President Ilham Aliyev tweeted. “Madagiz is ours.” He later announced the capture of seven more villages. Azerbaijan says 19 of its civilians have been killed, but has not disclosed its military losses. Armenian Defense Ministry official Artsrun Hovhannisyan said the situation was changing frequently. “In such a large war such changes are natural. We can take a position, then leave it in an hour,” he told reporters, per Reuters. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told his countrymen in a televised address that fighting all along the front was intense. “As of now, we already have significant human losses, both military and civilian, large quantities of military equipment are no longer usable, but the adversary still has not been able to solve any of its strategic issues,” he said. Armenia’s armed forces have so far held back from entering the war alongside those of Nagorno-Karabakh. But Pashinyan portrayed the conflict as a national struggle and compared it to the country’s war with Ottoman Turkey in the early 20th century. His Foreign Ministry said Armenia, as the guarantor of Nagorno-Karabakh’s security, would take ‘all the necessary means and steps’ to prevent what it called ‘mass atrocities’ by the forces of Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey.