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– Dear Sjusja, you are free! Dear Sjusja, we are back! Dear Sjusja, we will live you again! Karabakh is ours! Karabakh is Azerbaijan! Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev wrote on Twitter on Sunday afternoon.
https://twitter.com/presidentaz/status/1325383991441108992
Aliyev’s Twitter account was filled with one triumphant message after another throughout Sunday. Images of crowds dancing and cheering are broadcast from the capital Baku. Azerbaijan has one of the largest numbers of internally displaced people in the world, with a total of more than 600,000 people. A large part of them are from Nagorno-Karabakh. Since the early 1990s, they have been looking forward to going home.
At the same time, the leadership of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh republic says the information is not correct. The Armenian Defense Minister writes on Facebook that the fighting is still going on. David Babajan, an advisor to the unrecognized president of the republic, Arayik Harutiunjan, says that Armenians are defending the city “building by building”.
That the Armenians They are very pressured, you know for sure. The much better equipped Azerbaijani army has been pushing back the Armenians for more than a month, reclaiming much of the Armenian army-controlled buffer zone on the outskirts of Nagorno-Karabakh. Just under a week ago, Azerbaijan bit itself a few kilometers from Shusha. The city, which is significantly older than the capital of the mountainous province, Stepanakert, had an Azerbaijani majority before the war in the early 1990s. The Armenians expelled all Azerbaijanis from Nagorno-Karabakh and have not allowed it to the refugees have returned since then. Shusha has a strong symbolic meaning because many Azerbaijani musicians and poets come from there.
For Armenians it is a moral and strategic disaster if you lose Shusha. The city is located on a hill above Stepanakert. Anyone who controls Shusha can freely fire the capital, which is controlled by the Armenians.
The so-called Minsk Group, which is made up of Russia, France and the United States, is now trying to achieve a peaceful solution in the area. According to TT, there are intense contacts with Turkey, which openly supports Azerbaijan in the war.
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