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The Azerbaijani and Armenian armies They carried the war beyond the Nagorno Karabakh enclave on Tuesday, scene of bloody fighting since Sunday, which threatens to turn a territorial conflict into a regional contest.
“With the active instigation and political and military support of Turkey, Azerbaijan is expanding the geography of hostilities to the territory of Armenia“said the prime minister, Nikol Pashinián, on his Twitter account.
After two days of armed clashes in the Karabakh, Both sides were accused today of hammering with heavy weapons on targets in other areas, including the security strip created by Armenia in Azerbaijani territory after the 1988 fratricidal war.
“We are at war. There is great destruction, victims and a large number of soldiers are involved,” Pashinian told Russian television.
Armenia attacks Azerbaijani territory
According to Baku denounced, the Armenian troops attacked the Dashkesan region, in western Azerbaijan, with artillery fire, thus anticipating that “It will take appropriate retaliatory measures.”
That attack, denied by Yerevan and far from the Karabakh front line, was denounced by Hikmet Hajiyev, Advisor to the Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, and head of the International Policy Department of the Presidency.
“This reaffirms Armenia’s act of military aggression against Azerbaijan”said Hajiyev, who in early August had warned Efe that “Azerbaijani patience is not infinite” and that peace negotiations “cannot last forever”.
According to the Azerbaijani military report, eleven civilians have died since Sunday, to which should be added an undetermined number of soldiers, which Baku refuses to reveal for the moment.
“If the international community cannot stop the mad dictator of Armenia, Azerbaijan will do so. Azerbaijan will stop them, put them in their place and restore their territorial integrity,” said the Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliev, quoted by the Azertag agency.
Azerbaijani offensive in security zone
In turn, Armenia this day accused the Azerbaijani Army of attacking “Military and civilian targets of the Vardenis region”, located in eastern Armenia near Lake Sevan.
In the bombardment they would have used “Turkish drones”, according to the Armenian Foreign Minister, Zohrab Mnatsakanian.
To this would be added an Azerbaijani offensive against the city of Fizuli, Hadrut region, where a civilian died and three were injured in a drone attack.
Fizuli is located in the “security strip”, which includes seven districts bordering the Karabakh, representing one fifth of Azerbaijani territory.
Incident with Turkish fighter
Furthermore, according to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, an F-16 fighter from Turkey’s Air Force shot down an Armenian Su-25 today during a joint operation with the Azerbaijani aviation.
According to the version of Yerevan, the Turkish fighter took off from the Ganja military airfield in Azerbaijan and supported the Azerbaijani aviation attacking the Vardenis, Metsk Masrik and Sotk regions in eastern Armenia.
Pashinián denounced that Turkey is looking for an excuse to enter the conflict and to deploy troops in the Nakhichevan autonomy, since Turkish forces would already be in Azerbaijani territory since recent joint maneuvers.
In the incident, which was immediately denied by both Ankara and Baku, the Armenian pilot died.
