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A woman from Stepanakert, the main city in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, removes the broken glass from her window due to armed battles.
Separatist forces in Nagorno Karabakh accused Azerbaijani forces of launching a new large-scale offensive and fired rockets again at their main city, Stepanakert, on Saturday.
Karabakh army spokesman Surin Sarumyan said that Azerbaijan, which uses planes, drones and tanks, faces “heroic resistance” from separatist fighters.
The attack came a week after the warring parties began bombarding with tanks and missiles.
These clashes are the worst since the 1990s, raising the risk of a broader regional war that could draw Russia and Turkey in amid growing concerns about stability in the South Caucasus as pipelines carry oil. and gas from Azerbaijan to world markets.
Nearly 200 people have been confirmed dead since the fighting began on Sunday, including more than 30 civilians.
‘The fights are fierce’
The press office of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said it “holds the Armenian leadership fully responsible for the collapse of the negotiations and the resumption of the armed confrontation.” Armenia says it was Azerbaijan that reopened the conflict with a major offensive on September 27.
“The fierce battles continue throughout the entire front,” the Defense Ministry said on the seventh day of combat with Armenian forces.
The Defense Ministry claimed that its forces “have taken a new foothold in Karabakh and cleared the territories of enemy forces.
For her part, a spokeswoman for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, said that the separatist forces backed by Armenia on Saturday rejected a “major attack” by Azerbaijan and launched a counterattack.
And he wrote on Facebook: “Intense fighting continues in the other wings.”
Karabakh separatist leader Araik Harutyunyan said a “final battle” is being fought with Azerbaijani forces.
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Armenian soldiers in the city of Stepanakert, in the Karabakh region, try to rescue their colleague who was injured during the clashes
A French attempt to resume peace talks in Nagorno Karabakh, the Azerbaijani-owned and majority-Armenian-ruled region, has failed as there are no signs of a breakthrough after reigniting decades-long conflict in Azerbaijan and Armenia. .
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinyan, who supports Nagorno-Karabakh, and said in a subsequent statement that he had proposed a new way to resume. the conversations.
On Friday, Armenia said it was ready to communicate with Russia, the United States and France, co-chairs of the so-called Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, about the renewal of the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire.
The two sides defied international calls for a ceasefire and exchanged accusations of starting new clashes that began last Sunday and witnessed the fiercest fighting since the 1994 ceasefire.
