Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan begins military operation

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Armenia urges Russian peacekeepers to halt 'full-scale aggression'

Armenia has urged Russian peacekeeping troops successful the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh portion to intervene and halt Baku's "full-scale aggression," the Armenian Foreign ministry said successful a statement.

Russian troops person been stationed successful the disputed portion since the extremity of the 2020 war. However, Armenia has precocious blamed Russia of being distracted owed to its warfare successful Ukraine.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Baku demands 'complete withdrawal' of Armenian forces from Karabakh

Azerbaijan has demanded connected Tuesday the "complete withdrawal" of Armenian forces from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, saying it was the information for bid aft launching its "anti-terrorist operations."

"The lone mode to execute bid and stableness successful the portion is the unconditional and implicit withdrawal of the Armenian equipped forces from the Karabakh portion of Azerbaijan and the dissolution of the alleged [Armenian separatist] regime," Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said successful a statement. 

Armenia's Defense Ministry had denied the beingness of unit oregon equipment successful the breakaway region.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Azerbaijan successful interaction with state Turkey implicit operations

Azerbaijan has briefed its Turkish state regarding what it has called "anti-terrorist" operations successful the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Zakir Gasanov spoke to his Turkish counterpart Yasar Guler regarding the operations, the ministry announced successful a statement.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Armenia denies subject beingness successful Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenia's Defense Ministry said successful a connection connected Tuesday that the concern connected its ain borderline with Azerbaijan was stable.

The ministry denied having immoderate subject unit oregon instrumentality successful the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, wherever Azerbaijan has launched what it said were "anti-terrorist" operations.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Armenia separatists accidental Karabach nether 'intensive fire'

An Armenia-based separatist enactment accused Azerbaijan of launching a "large-scale subject offensive" successful the region.

"At this moment, the superior Stepanakert and different cities and villages are nether intensive fire," it said.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Russia urges each sides to respect cease-fire

Russia has urged each sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh struggle to respect erstwhile cease-fire agreements, saying it was successful interaction with Azerbaijan implicit its "anti-terrorist operations" successful the breakaway region.

"We cognize what needs to beryllium done to resoluteness the situation... to instrumentality everything we agreed on, not to provoke the situation, to enactment toward calming it down and resolving it," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Russia and Turkey person been overseeing a fragile peacekeeping ngo successful Nagorno-Karabakh aft they brokered a cease-fire to extremity the six-day warfare successful 2020.

Moscow has agelong been seen arsenic Armenia's traditional protecting power, though the chap Orthodox Christian federation is losing popularity among Armenians, portion Ankara backs Muslim-majority Azerbaijan, with which it besides has linguistic and taste ties.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Azerbaijan announces 'anti-terrorist' cognition successful Karabakh

Azerbaijan said connected Tuesday that it was launching an "anti-terrorist operation" successful the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, implicit which it had previously warred with neighboring Armenia.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said it was utilizing "high-precision weapons connected the beforehand enactment and successful depth" arsenic portion of the operation, which it said were "of a section character."

The operation was meant to "suppress large-scale provocations" and thrust retired what it said were Armenian troops.

Azerbaijan urged civilians to enactment distant from subject facilities, saying it has been successful interaction with Armenian residents of the Karabakh portion via substance messages, loudspeakers and accusation leaflets.

It added that it has established humanitarian corridors and reception stations successful respective places, including the Lachin road, to guarantee the colonisation is evacuated from information zones.

Earlier connected Tuesday, Azerbaijan said that 4 soldiers and 2 civilian roadworthy workers were killed in landmine explosions successful Nagorno-Karabakh that it blamed connected "illegal Armenian equipped groups."

Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a sizable taste Armenian population, has been partially nether Baku's power since the 2020 war. 

rmt,fb/jcg (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)