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Hours after the ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan came into force, the city of Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno Karabakh region that is under the control of Armenian separatists, was bombed on Saturday, while the Ministry of Azerbaijani Foreign Relations announced on Sunday that seven people were killed in a bombardment against the city of Gandja, accusing the Armenian forces of launching the attack. .
The city of Stepanakert, the capital, has been exposed Nagorno Karabakh region Controlled by Armenian separatists, after going into bombing on Saturday The ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan enters into force.
Seven loud explosions were heard throughout the city around 11:30 p.m. local time, after which sirens sounded for several minutes, calling on residents to take refuge in basements and shelters.
According to Agence France-Presse reporters, the attacks on Saturday night and Sunday targeted Stepanakert, and spoke of three or four rounds of shelling, followed by dozens of explosions.
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Then calm returned to the city, plunged into complete darkness.
On Sunday morning, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced the deaths of seven people in the bombing of the city of Gandja, accusing the Armenian forces of launching the attack.
The ministry wrote on its Twitter account: “A new missile attack by Armenian forces in a residential area in Gandja, the second civilian in Azerbaijan, left seven dead and 33 wounded.” The tweet attached images of the destruction in the city.
For its part, the Defense Ministry of the breakaway Nagorno Karabakh region denied the bombing of Gandja. “It is an absolute lie,” he said, emphasizing that it “respects the humanitarian ceasefire agreement.” He accused the Azerbaijani side of attacking “Stepanakert, Hadrot, Martoni and other populated areas”.
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This escalation comes despite the fact that Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Friday in Moscow on a ceasefire that was reached with Russian mediation after two weeks of violent battles in the separatist region of Nagorno Karabakh.
However, the two sides quickly exchanged accusations of violating the armistice.
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In announcing the truce, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that the two parties agreed to initiate “substantive negotiations” to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict, mediated by the heads of the Minsk Group (Russia, France and the United States) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Clashes that broke out on September 27 between Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan resulted in the deaths of more than 450 people, including some 50 civilians. But the true death toll from the battles may be much higher.
The Nagorno Karabakh region, which has an Armenian majority, separated from Azerbaijan after a war that left 30,000 dead in the 1990s. And it accuses Baku Yerevia of occupying the territory of the territory, which has witnessed numerous acts of violence. violence.
France 24 / AFP
