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The losses of the Defence Army are much higher than those announced; soldiers lack ammunition, volunteers in Nagorno-Karabakh assert. Local residents associate the shelling strengthening with Azerbaijan's desire to push forward the frontline before an imminent ceasefire.

In his new video message, Shirvani Tepsurkaev has called to "close the topic" with his son, stating that he was satisfied with the responses of Chechen authorities and had no complaints against them. However, the authors of the 1Adat Telegram Channel are sure that Salman's father was forced to record the new appeal because information appeared that two kidnappers of his son had been recognized.

Two experts were detained for using incorrect maps of the wrong scale when determining the border with Azerbaijan. Investigators suggest that because of their actions, Georgia has lost more than 3500 hectares of territory.

In Gudermes, officials attended a ceremony to commission a residential building without wearing protective masks, local residents reported. According to them, the top-ranking officials of Chechnya follow the example of Ramzan Kadyrov and openly violate the mask regime.

The footage of the video about the sending of Chechen natives to Nagorno-Karabakh does not contain any explicit signs to identify the location of the shooting, although military vehicles in the video are typical for the Middle East, experts says. The parties do not emphasize the religious background of the conflict, but it is the key motive for the natives of Chechnya, suggests Caucasian expert Akhmet Yarlykapov.

In Berlin, a court held the first hearing in a case on the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge. The defendant, who identified himself as construction worker Vadim Sokolov, exercised his right to remain silent. Political refugee Rubati Mitsaeva expressed hope that he would not be extradited to Russia.

Muslims in Georgia are discriminated more often than adherents of other faiths, the NGO "Human Rights Training and Monitoring Centre" has stated.

The video clip about the Chechens sent to the war in Nagorno-Karabakh was actually filmed in the Crimea, as evidenced by the bridge caught in the clip.

Because of frequent missile attacks, Stepanakert townspeople are afraid to leave their shelters for a long time; there are interruptions in communications and power supply in the city. As a result of the shelling, 23 civilians were killed, more than 90 others were wounded, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson has stated.

Azerbaijan does not publish the names of its military servicemen perished during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, as it suffers great losses, but the society is ready for them, Pavel Felgengauer, a military expert, believes. The data on losses among Azerbaijani militaries is not published in order not to corrupt the nation's morale, Alexander Perendjiev, another expert, has noted.

Women, children and the elderly have left a number of Azerbaijani villages located in the frontline area, but other villagers would not leave their homes and households for a long time, Avaz Gasanov, an activist, has informed. There are children and women among shelling victims.

A criminal murder case has been opened at the demand of the mother of Movsar Umarov, a missing Grozny resident after the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has drawn attention to his disappearance.

A video about natives of Chechnya being sent to the Karabakh conflict zone is fake, some Instagram users believe. Meanwhile, in their comments, other network users argue for the authenticity of the video.

Since the beginning of the conflict escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, 141 residents of Azerbaijan have been injured and 376 houses have been destroyed, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan reports. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia denied information about shelling attacks on Azerbaijani villages and cities.

Russia sees a threat to its security in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, since the region attracts militants from international terrorist groupings to Southern Caucasus, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service claims. Russian and Iranian Foreign Ministers urged parties to the conflict to cease fire.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded 33,800 euros in compensation to Mikhail Vladovsky, a resident of Chechnya, in a case on his torture by the police, the ECtHR reported.

In Chechnya, the police are conducting raids requesting personnel of shops and catering facilities to wear protective masks, while Ramzan Kadyrov and his associates ignore the mask regime, local residents note.

The parties to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh must immediately stop shelling civilian objects, the countries-co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have stated. In his turn, Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, has warned that truce is possible only on the conditions of Azerbaijan.

All the bodies of power in Nagorno-Karabakh are working normally, despite shelling from Azerbaijan; and the night on the frontline has passed relatively calmly, Araik Arutyunyan, Karabakh President, has stated.

The shelling of major Azerbaijani cities, Ganja, Mingachevir and other district centres, located far from Nagorno-Karabakh, cannot seriously harm the country's military potential. The shelling is aimed at creating panic among local residents, Baku analysts assert.