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The Russian military announced on Saturday that there had been a violation of the ceasefire agreement that ended in November with heavy fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the breakaway Nagorno Karabakh region.
The Russian Defense Ministry, which deployed peacekeepers to the region, said in a statement on Saturday: “On December 11, a violation of the ceasefire agreement was reported in the Ghadrut region.”
Earlier today, Armenia announced that separatist forces in the disputed region since the collapse of the Soviet Union were shelled from the Azerbaijani side, indicating that three militants were wounded.
According to the region’s “Ministry of Defense”, Azerbaijani forces attacked the Armenian fighters on Friday night.
The fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, which had claimed thousands of lives in the two camps, came to a halt after the signing of a Moscow-sponsored ceasefire agreement in November that enshrined a military defeat for the Armenians and made significant progress for Baku.
In addition, a 2,000-strong Russian peacekeeping force has been deployed in the region to ensure that the ceasefire agreement is respected.
During a visit to Azerbaijan this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country openly supported Azerbaijan in its offensive and was sometimes suspected of providing material aid to the country, declared that the “fight” against Armenia was not over yet.
“The fighting in the political and military spheres will now continue on many other fronts,” he said during a speech he delivered on the sidelines of a large military parade in Baku.
He called on Armenian leaders to “come to their senses” after their defeat in this Six Week War and emphasized that the restoration of Azerbaijan’s control over many lands “would be the beginning of a new era” in this region. mountainous Caucasus.
