The Armenian Foreign Ministry, on the other hand, announced that a civilian had been killed while shelling the Armenian city of Vardenis.
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“Unfortunately, the number of civilians killed in our country is growing. To date, ten citizens have been killed, including a family of five, “Aliyev said according to the Interfax agency. A spokeswoman for Azerbaijani diplomacy said Baku saw Armenian shelling of settlements as a war crime.
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Enemy forces were trying to regain lost positions in counterattacks in the direction of Füzuli, Džebrail, Agdere and Terter, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense said in the morning.
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The Armenian Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, accused Azerbaijani forces of shelling and raiding the garrison of the border town of Vardenis, located directly on the territory of Armenia and far from Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the ministry, a civilian bus caught fire after an Azerbaijani drone.
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Department spokeswoman Shushan Stepanjan, as disinformed, denied the Azerbaijani claim that it was from the vicinity of the town of Vardenis in eastern Armenia that the Armenian artillery shelled the border area in western Azerbaijan. According to Baku, the Azerbaijani side is only “responding adequately” to this shelling.
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According to Interfax, the Armenian Ministry of Defense has threatened to use long-range and large-area weapons in retaliation for the Azerbaijani shelling of TOS and Smerch heavy rocket launchers, which “change the logic of combat operations and take them to a new level.”
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The man points to the damage after the fighting near the town of Hadrut in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Photo: Vahram Baghdasaryan, Reuters
Fighting between the opposing parties broke out on Sunday morning. Reuters called them the worst since the 1990s. According to statements from both sides, they have already claimed dozens of deaths. Both Baku and Yerevan mobilized the reserves and accused each other of attacks.
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The head of American diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, called on the opposing parties to end the fighting. According to a government spokeswoman Angela Merkel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasized in a telephone conversation with President Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikola Pašinjan that the parties must stop fighting and return to the negotiating table.
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France has reiterated its intention to involve a Russian group led by Russia to help mediate negotiations between the opposing parties, together with France and the United States. The UN Security Council is due to discuss the situation behind closed doors.
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An Armenian soldier during the fighting for Nagorno-Karabakh
Foto: Armenian Ministry Of Defence, Reuters
The Nagorno-Karabakh dispute – an enclave in southwestern Azerbaijan with a predominantly Armenian population – has long existed between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armed conflict erupted in 1988, and Nagorno-Karabakh, with the support of Armenia, broke away from Azerbaijan in a bloody war that claimed an estimated 30,000 lives and resulted in hundreds of thousands of refugees. Currently, the enclave and the adjacent Lachin Corridor, leading to Armenia, are under military control of Armenia, while Azerbaijan considers the territory occupied.
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