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The Armenian government has announced that it is restricting the right of men in the “mobilization reserve” to leave the country. The cabinet press service in Yerevan, quoted by TASS,
suggests that men between the ages of 18 and 55 can only go out with the permission of a military commission.
This decision follows the declaration of martial law by Armenia and Azerbaijan and the mobilization of adult men from Yerevan and partly from Baku. Mobilization is also widespread in Nagorno-Karabakh two days after clashes broke out between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over an enclave that declared its independence from Azerbaijan but was populated predominantly by Armenians.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has blocked social media and chat applications: Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and others, according to NetBlocks, which monitors Internet access around the world.
Mutual accusations and unconfirmed data
The two parties blame each other for the other fire and say hundreds have died. This morning, too, Armenia announced that Azerbaijani forces had opened Armenian fire in the border town of Vardenis, miles from Nagorno-Karabakh, and an Azerbaijani drone had hit and set fire to a civilian bus.
Map of the Karabakh war theater as of today. It is really difficult to map the fights as there is very little verified information and some data is intentionally suppressed. But this is what we have calculated, comparing the official statements of both parties and speaking with our sources. @bbcrussian pic.twitter.com/z8C6wVJRis
– Grigor atanesiano (@atanessi) September 28, 2020
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry accused the Armenian army of bombing Dashkesan, another border region.
The Defense Ministry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic announced that 53 of its military personnel died yesterday. The data cannot be confirmed, but the victims during the two days according to these statistics are at least 80.
The main fighting on Tuesday was in various areas of Azerbaijani territory, near the Nagorno-Karabakh borders, and in the enclave itself, according to the Baku Defense Ministry, for example in the Fuzuli, Jebrail and Agdere regions (called Agdere in Azerbaijani).
Armenia denies the accusations, but says the Nagorno-Karabakh army has repulsed attacks in various directions overnight. Both sides are accused of using heavy artillery.
Concerns about outside interference
The BBC notes that other countries fear foreign forces such as Turkey, Russia and Iran will enter the conflict. Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded an end to the “Armenian occupation” of Nagorno-Karabakh, for which the war ended in 1994 with tens of thousands of casualties.
Earlier, Reuters released information about Syrian mercenaries sent from Ankara in support of Baku, and later reports of involvement of private Russian military companies appeared on social media. Yerevan said Syrian citizens were among those fighting on his side, but were of Armenian descent.
At least 200 people were killed in the 2016 clashes, the largest escalation to date since the 1990s.
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