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The ceasefire went into effect at noon on Saturday. Already on Sunday night several explosions were heard in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. This is confirmed by the AFP envoy, who is at the city site.
Armenia says that Azerbaijan broke the ceasefire, Azerbaijan in turn accuses Armenia of bombing the country’s second largest city, Ganja, with robots overnight. At least eight people were killed and 33 were injured, according to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. The Reuters correspondent has seen at least one dead person taken out of the ruins of a bombed-out house. The BBC station on the ground in Ganja is publishing images of great destruction.
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Armenia calls Azerbaijani intelligence “an outright lie” and, in turn, accuses Azerbaijan of bombing Stepanakert.
Spirals with accusations and counter-accusations is underway just one day after the countries entered a ceasefire during the Russian mediation in Moscow. Under the Moscow agreement, the so-called Minsk Group will now take over the peace process. It operates within the framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE, and is made up of Russia, France and the United States. So far, he hasn’t accomplished much.
The question now is partly what Russia is and partly what Turkey intends to do. The fact that Azerbaijan decided to attack Nagorno-Karabakh two weeks ago is, according to many observers, the result of Turkey’s encouragement. At the same time, Russia, traditionally an ally of Armenia, has been remarkably passive. Only this week began negotiations on a ceasefire. Russia is likely to want to maintain its leading role in the negotiations, but the role of diplomacy has so far been negligible in this conflict.
Azerbaijan has repeatedly said that if Armenia refuses to return the territory through negotiations, Azerbaijan will take it back militarily. For Azerbaijan, it now seems important to create a comprehensive fact on the ground. Armenia, in turn, benefits from the fact that winter is just around the corner and it is becoming increasingly difficult to fight.
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