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Y Intense hostilities between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continued into the night along the border of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Both sides claimed local victories and said they had caused heavy casualties, the FOCUS news agency reported, citing information from Ruptly.
During the night there were clashes “of varying intensity”
on the border with Nagorno-Karabakh, a spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Monday. “The enemy resumed the offensive using artillery and armored vehicles, including the heavy TOS flamethrower,” the official revealed. The Armenian army has stopped the attacks, “causing significant losses to the enemy in personnel and equipment.”
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Baku, meanwhile, has accused its worst enemy of attacking civilian areas. On Monday morning, Armenian forces shelled Terter, a border town of about 19,000 people, the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry told media. “Appropriate measures” will be taken if the shelling is not stopped, the ministry warned.
Previously, Baku reported that at least 550 Armenian soldiers had been killed or wounded.
in the Azerbaijani “counteroffensive”, along with dozens of tanks, howitzers and air defense systems lost in hostilities. Yerevan immediately rejected the accusation as “unfounded”. Nagorno-Karabakh itself has announced the loss of 31 Armenian troops in the fighting.
Baku reported 26 civilians injured in Armenian bombings
The number of Azerbaijani civilians injured as a result of artillery shelling by the Armenian armed forces in settlements near the contact line in the Nagorno-Karabakh area has risen to 26, the Azerbaijan Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Monday, cited by TASS .
“The number of civilian victims at this time is 26. They were hospitalized with various injuries,” the statement said. On Sunday, the Attorney General’s Office reported 19 injured civilians from Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov said in a briefing on Monday that the number of Azerbaijani civilians killed was six, five of them from the same family.
Ministry of Defense of the Unrecognized
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Announces Return of Contact Line Positions Previously Lost Overnight.
“Heavy fighting continued overnight in the southern, southeastern and northern directions of the front line. The units of the Defense Army (from Karabakh) as a result of a counterattack inflicted heavy losses on the enemy’s manpower and military equipment. “added the department’s website.
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Hostilities began on Sunday morning. Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other for the start of the fighting.
Yerevan has accused Baku of using fighter jets and heavy artillery to fire on targets in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region administered and inhabited by ethnic Armenians but claimed by Azerbaijan as part of its territory.
Baku, for its part, said it had fought back in response to the Armenian “provocations”. Both sides, often embroiled in hostilities since the collapse of the Soviet Union, have sent reinforcements to the front, accusing each other of attacking civilian areas.
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Nagorno-Karabakh and its long-time ally Armenia have announced
martial law and total mobilization
on Sunday, and Azerbaijan did the same later that day. The Azerbaijani authorities have also cut Internet services, citing wartime requirements; Social media and messengers, including Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and WhatsApp, also do not work in the South Caucasus country.
The fighting sparked a series of diplomatic reactions, with the United States, France and the EU calling for an immediate end to hostilities. Russia, which has traditionally maintained warm relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan, offered a mediating role, discussing the crisis with Turkey, a country that immediately offered its “full support” to Baku.
Nagorno-Karabakh: 46 dead and 200 injured
The Karabakh conflict began in February 1988.,
when the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region announced its secession from the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. As a result of the armed confrontation in 1992-1994, Azerbaijan lost control of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven neighboring regions. Negotiations for a peaceful solution to the conflict have been under way since 1992 within the OSCE Minsk Group, chaired by three co-chairs: Russia, the United States and France. Azerbaijan insists on preserving its territorial integrity, Armenia defends the interests of the unrecognized republic, as the NKR is not a party to the negotiations.
