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- According to local authorities, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh was attacked with rockets during the fighting in the southern Caucasus.
- The Azerbaijani army fired on Stepanakert again, said Araik Arutjunjan, president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
- It was also aimed at civilian objects. He did not give details.
In response, Arutjunjan threatened to attack military objects in major cities in Azerbaijan. Therefore, the population should be safe, he wrote.
The Azerbaijani army once again spoke of intense artillery fire against towns and cities in its territory. Among other things, there should have been a rocket attack on the second largest city of Ganja. Azerbaijani Defense Minister Sakir Hassanov spoke of an “expansion of the combat zone”. Armenia rejected the accusation. Arutjunjan, on the other hand, claimed that his forces had attacked a military base in Ganja.
Battles for a week
So far, more than 200 people have been killed in the fighting in the southern Caucasus, according to Armenian sources in Nagorno-Karabakh. However, there was different information on this information. Azerbaijan recently reported 19 civilians killed and 60 injured.
For almost a week, the two warring states have engaged in heavy fighting in the Armenian-controlled area of Azerbaijan. Both parties mutually transfer responsibility for the renewed escalation.
Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian-occupied buffer zone (hatched).
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Foreign fighters on duty?
Armenia had previously accused Turkey of relocating thousands of mercenaries from war zones in Syria and Libya to the southern Caucasus. Russia had also spoken of plausible evidence for this.
“This is fake news,” Aliyev said Saturday in an interview with Al-Jazeera television station. Evidence must be presented. There is not a single evidence of foreign fighters in Azerbaijan. Turkey is also not involved in the conflict.
Turkey is on the side of Azerbaijan in the conflict, while Armenia sees Russia as a protective power. The two countries have been fighting for decades over the mountainous region, which is home to some 145,000 people. Armenia controls Nagorno-Karabakh, but according to international law it belongs to the Islamic part of Azerbaijan.
