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The ceasefire, which took effect on Saturday at noon, was agreed to by both parties during Russian-mediated talks in Moscow.
Immediately after the ceasefire was announced, Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of violating them. In the afternoon, however, there was a significant drop in shooting in the region and Stepanakert residents were able to leave after many days of shelling.
But the break was short: before midnight, at 10 pm 30 minutes. In Lithuanian time, seven strong explosions were destroyed in a ruined city, reported the AFP journalist working in Stepanakert.
Azerbaijan reported on Sunday that seven people were killed in a nightly shooting in Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenian forces in the country’s second-largest city.
This was announced one day after the ceasefire in the region took effect.
“Seven people were killed and 33 more injured, including children, on another Twitter night by Armenian forces,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said on a Twitter account.
A senior Azerbaijani official said the ceasefire was “only temporary”.
“It is a humanitarian ceasefire aimed at the exchange of bodies and prisoners of the victims. This is not a true ceasefire,” the official said, emphasizing that Baku “does not promise to abandon” its attempt to seize control of Nagorno- Karabakh.
Earlier on Saturday, the Armenian Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijani forces of launching an attack on the front line just five minutes after the ceasefire was announced.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry, for its part, said Armenian forces also carried out an attack on the front line and fired at populated areas. Officials have accused Armenia of “a clear violation of the ceasefire.”
In the evening, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that the Armenian forces had tried to carry out the attack in various places in the region, but were forced to withdraw.
Armenia and Azerbaijan became involved in the territorial conflict after the collapse of the USSR, and Nagorno-Karabakh declared its independence after 30,000. victims of war.
No country in the world recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh, it is still considered part of Azerbaijan.
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