Tensions in the South Caucasus region rose on Sunday after enemy parties accused each other of attacks on their territory. Both Baku and Yerevan report injured and fallen, including civilian casualties. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pasinjan called the military activities of the neighboring country on Sunday a declaration of war and declared the general mobilization of men and martial law. A decree announcing a partial mobilization was also signed on Monday by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
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The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense informed that its forces had gained control of six villages, Armenia denied.
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NO COMMENT: Azerbaijan has neutralized a ground target on the Armenian side of the border
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“The fighting continued at night (…) There is no ceasefire, the fighting continues and in some places artillery battles are taking place,” the TASS agency quoted from the statement of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia. According to Yerevan, 31 soldiers of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic lost their lives on Sunday. The capital of this separatist region, Stepanakert, also became the target of Azerbaijani shelling.
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According to Yerevan, 31 soldiers of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have been killed and 200 others have been injured since Sunday. In addition, according to the AFP agency, five Azerbaijani civilians and two Armenian civilians were killed. Azerbaijan has not officially announced its losses.
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NO COMMENT: Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan are growing
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Artillery fighting was also confirmed by Baku. “Since the morning of September 28, Armenian troops have been shelling the (Azerbaijani) city of Terter,” the Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense said.
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The city lies on the territory of Azerbaijan on the border with Nagorno-Karabakh and is under the full control of Azerbaijan. As early as Sunday, the ministry reported “intense shelling” of Azerbaijani army positions by Armenia.
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An armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out in 1988, and Nagorno-Karabakh, with the support of Armenia, broke away from Azerbaijan in a war that claimed 30,000 dead and hundreds of thousands of refugees. The enclave is now predominantly Armenian, and the surrounding area is under military control of Armenia, while Azerbaijan considers the area occupied.
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