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STEPANAKERT, KOMPAS.com – Azerbaijani troops opened fire on Stepanakert, the main city in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region on Sunday.
The incident was reported by Armenian officials as the fighting entered its second week.
Di Stepanakert, journalist AFP sirens were heard at the scene at around 09:30 am followed by several explosions. The electricity in the city also went out today.
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“Azerbaijani troops fired at civilian targets in Stepanakert with rockets,” said Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan. AFP.
Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani authorities said they were taking “retaliatory measures” following the firing of rockets by Armenian separatists in Stepanakert.
Later, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry in Baku said that the Armenian armed forces fired rockets at the cities of Terter and Horadiz in the Fizuli region of Stepanakert.
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Baku and Yerevan have spent decades in a heated conflict over the ethnic Armenian province, which was separated from Azerbaijan in a bitter war in the 1990s.
The last confrontation that broke out since Sunday (9/27/2020) was the largest in decades and has claimed 240 lives, including more than 30 civilians.
The fighting continues despite international calls for the two neighboring countries to stop the fighting and begin talks.
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Because, it is feared that this battle could expand into a multi-state war that will suck regional power out of Turkey and Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned Turkey, which supports Azerbaijan, against the alleged deployment of Syrian militias to the Karabakh conflict zone.
Karabakh’s declaration of independence from Azerbaijan sparked a war in the early 1990s that claimed 30,000 lives, but no country, including Armenia, has yet to recognize it as an independent state.
Talks to resolve this conflict have stalled many times since the 1994 ceasefire.
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