Attacks on Armenian cultural heritage and religious sites by Azerbaijan’s armed forces

Drone footage captures the aftermath of shelling on Ghazanchetsots cathedral in Shushi


Azerbaijan’s forces desecrated an Armenian church in the occupied territory of Artsakh. One of the Azeri soldiers stood on the cross he had broken and began to praise Allah.


Azerbaijani soldiers destroying an Armenian cemetery in Arstakh (Karabakh)


An Azeri soldier breaks the bell from the cross and says: “I will hang it on the chest of your (Armenian) mother. If mom is dead, then I will hang it on your wife, on your daughter.”


Azerbaijan destroying another monument in Arstakh (Norogono Karabakh) with an excavator

In the captured village of Avetaranots, Azerbaijani soldiers are seen shooting at a bottle placed on a monument to the defenders of the fatherland of the second world war.



Azeris are seen vandalizing and destroying a cultural monument


An Azeri soldier desecrating the gravesite and tombstone of a deceased Armenian soldier


A journalist covering the recent Nagorno-Karabagh conflict sits with the statue of Vazgen Sargasyan, the first Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.

An Azeri soldier is seen sitting on top of the head of the same statue of Vazgen Sargasyan. The statue has been visibly graffitied as well.


An image of the Armenian Khachkar and a tombstone in the temporarily occupied settlement of Vorotan (Kubatlu).

The Azerbaijani-Turkish troops desecrated and destroyed the Armenian Khachkar and a tombstone in the temporarily occupied settlement of Vorotan (Kubatlu).