The only road connecting Karabakh with Armenia – the Lachin Corridor – has been under blockade for months
Russia has accused Azerbaijan of violating a Moscow-brokered ceasefire that ended the war with Armenia in 2020, AFP reported.
“On March 25… a unit of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan crossed the contact line in the Shusha region, in violation” of the November 9, 2020 agreement, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
It states that Russian peacekeepers are “taking measures aimed at preventing escalation… and mutual provocations”.
Earlier, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said it had taken control of some relief roads in its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a predominantly Armenian population and has fought two wars with Armenia over it.
The ministry said that “necessary control measures have been implemented by units of the Azerbaijani army to prevent the use of dirt roads north of Lachin” for arms deliveries from Armenia.
The only road connecting Karabakh to Armenia – the Lachin Corridor – has been under an Azerbaijani blockade for months, which Yerevan says has led to a humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
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