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The Azerbaijani military occupied some 139 square kilometers of Armenia's sovereign territory during the September 2022 attack, the chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff, Major-General Edward Asryan told French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna on Friday.

The officials visited Jermuk, a spa town in Armenia’s southern Vayots Dzor Province which was hit hard by the Azerbaijani military aggression on September 13-14.

Asryan said Azeri troops seized 60.06 square kilometers of area near Jermuk during the attack. He recalled that Azerbaijan used artillery, missiles and drones to hit military and civilian targets inside Armenia.

“There were casualties both among the Armenian military personnel and civilians. The adversary is now deployed in an area of about 139 square kilometers within Armenia’s sovereign territory,” Asryan said, adding the situation is relatively stable currently, but Azerbaijani forces sometimes fire shots at the Armenian border areas.