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About 30 rockets were heard in various districts of Stepanakert on Wednesday night through the bombardment of their capital. Nagorno-Karabakh It continues with brief pauses, reports a correspondent for the Russian news agency TASS in the city.
Sirens that warn citizens to hurry for shelter are constantly ringing in the city.
The authorities have not yet provided information on casualties or material damage from the ongoing bombing.
Hostilities between the Azerbaijani forces and Armenian the separatists in the pocket have been furious since September 27.
This is the most serious resurgence of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh in recent years, with fighting much more intense than in the summer of 2014, April 2016 or July this year.
Yerevan and Baku imposed martial law and declared mobilization. Both parties report numerous victims, including civilians.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a disputed area, part of it Azerbaijan Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but with a predominantly Armenian population, it intensified in February 1988, when the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region announced its secession from the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic.
From 1992 to 1994 large-scale military operations were carried out to control the enclave.
Talks to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been under way since 1992 under the auspices of the so-called Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The three countries that co-chair the Minsk Group, Russia, France and the United States, have a role to play in the negotiations.
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