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Today, the intensity of the battles between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region increased, resulting in the death of at least 30 people, on the second day of the fighting, and Armenia accused Turkey of directly interfering in the fighting of the Azerbaijani side, while the UN Security Council holds a closed emergency meeting tomorrow. Discuss the evolution of the territory.
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces exchanged missile and artillery shelling, and the Armenian Defense Ministry said Azerbaijani forces were launching a major attack on the southern axis of the Nagorno Karabakh region adjacent to the Araks River on Iran’s borders, and the northeast axis of the region.
The ministry spokeswoman confirmed that Armenian forces repelled the Azerbaijani attacks and caused heavy losses in equipment and lives, noting that more than 370 Azeri soldiers were killed and dozens injured, and 22 tanks and 10 vehicles were destroyed.
The ministry said that Azerbaijani forces shelled Stepankert, the capital of Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding villages with heavy artillery.
A large-scale armored attack from the adversary heading south is stopped. pic.twitter.com/nJusBd7YQP
– Shushan Stepanyan (@ShStepanyan) September 28, 2020
The authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh region, which is not internationally recognized, confirmed that Armenian forces had regained control of vital locations that had been controlled by Azerbaijani forces yesterday, and announced that the number of Armenian soldiers killed in the clashes increased. at 59. The Interfax news agency quoted a representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry as saying that 200 Armenians were injured.
And the Reuters news agency quoted Angela Franjian, a documentary maker in the disputed region, that residents have resorted to hiding places and that the sounds of shelling are constantly being heard, indicating that all stores have closed and streets have become deserted. The Al-Jazeera correspondent confirmed the suspension of flights to and from the airport of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, due to the declaration of the state of war in the country, and revealed that the Armenian authorities closed the road leading to the northern part from the Nagorno Karabakh region.
Accusing Turkey
Armenian President Armen Sarkisian accused Turkey of supporting Azerbaijani forces in their military operations in the region, with F-16 fighters, mercenaries, military advisers and drones, which Baku authorities denied. Sarkisian added in a press release that Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is also helping Azerbaijan with drones and experts to launch cyber attacks.
Sarkissian indicated that the conflict in the Karabakh region can be resolved by returning to dialogue within the framework of the Minsk Group, with the participation of Russia, the United States, France and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to which it belongs the Minsk group.
Today, the Armenian parliament condemned what it described as a “comprehensive military attack” by Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh, saying that the intervention of Turkey, which is helping Baku in the crisis, threatens to destabilize the region, and the Armenian ambassador in Moscow Vardan Toganyan threatened that his country would use Russian Iskander missiles if Turkey began using F-16s in the Naguzni Karabakh region.
On the other hand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned what he described as the Armenian aggression on Azerbaijani lands. He said Ankara is with all its capabilities on the side of Baku, and Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar emphasized that his country supports Azerbaijan, and called on Armenia to withdraw what it described as mercenaries and terrorists.
The Azerbaijani novel
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said her country’s forces “recovered 7 villages from Armenian forces,” and stressed that what her country is doing is a response to what she called the new war that Armenia started. The spokeswoman added that Armenia was unable to achieve its goals and said there is no peace before the withdrawal of the Armenian forces. Of the areas it occupied, as she described it
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to start partial military mobilization in the country, in the context of the battles with Armenia in the Karabakh region, and the two sides accused each other of responsibility for the start of the bombing of Sunday.
Today, Anadolu Agency cited Azerbaijani security sources as saying that Azerbaijani forces bombed more than 400 Armenian targets and managed to destroy more than 10 air defense systems and some 20 armored vehicles belonging to the Armenian army in the region.
Security Council
In a related context, diplomatic sources told the French Press Agency that the UN Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting tomorrow Tuesday in which it will discuss developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the same sources indicated that this initiative was undertaken by Germany and France, and has the support of other European countries, specifically Estonia, Belgium and Great Britain.
The battles in the disputed territory coincide with the convocation of the United Nations General Assembly and raise fears of a full-scale war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the southern Caucasus, where Ankara and Moscow compete. Russia and Iran offered mediation between Yerevan and Baku to resolve the dispute over the disputed territory.
Under international law, the Nagorno Karabakh region is part of Azerbaijan, but the Armenians, who make up the vast majority of its population, reject the Baku government. The region has managed its private affairs with the support of Armenia since its desertion from Azerbaijan during a conflict that erupted with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite the agreement on a ceasefire in 1994 after thousands of deaths and displacement Out of large numbers, the two countries frequently exchange accusations of launching attacks within the region and on the borders between them.
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