The NKR Ministry of Defense has announced that all the military installations marked in the photos, according to the provisions of international law (International Convention for the Protection of War Victims of 12 August 1949, Protocol I, Article 52) are legitimate targets for the NKR Armed Forces.

The Azerbaijani armed forces, violating Article 58 of the same protocol, have not refrained from stationing military installations in and in the vicinity of populated settlements.