Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan sends troops to 'disarm Armenians'

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Russia says was fixed 'minutes' notice

Russia said connected Tuesday it was lone fixed announcement of Azerbaijan's cognition "minutes" earlier its launch, denying it was told successful advance.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said said successful statements that media reports suggesting Azerbaijan warned the Russian peacekeepers stationed successful the portion successful beforehand "does not correspond to reality."

"The accusation was communicated to the Russian contingent a fewer minutes earlier the outbreak of hostilities," Zakharova said.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Armenian separatists accidental Baku attempting to beforehand into region

Armenian separatists successful the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh portion person said Azerbaijani forces were trying to beforehand into the region.

"The Azerbaijani Armed Forces are trying to beforehand into extent of Artsakh," it said, utilizing an Armenian sanction for the area. "The Defense Forces proceed to defy Azerbaijan's violative on the full enactment of contact." 

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

EU calls connected Azerbaijan to halt subject actions

The European Union has called connected Azerbaijan to "immediately" halt its subject actions successful Nagorno-Karabakh, aft Baku said it launched "anti-terrorist" operations.

"Devastating quality coming from erstwhile Nagorno-Karabakh oblast today," European Council President Charles Michel said connected societal media.

He called for allowing a "genuine dialog betwixt Baku and Karabakh Armenians."

EU overseas argumentation main Josep Borrell besides said the bloc "condemns the subject escalation" and "deplores the nonaccomplishment of lives."

"This subject escalation should not beryllium utilized arsenic a pretext to unit the exodus of the section population," Borrell said. "Violence needs to halt successful bid to supply a conducive situation for bid and normalization talks."
 

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of attempting 'ethnic cleansing'

Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of launching "large-scale aggression" against the Nagorno-Karabakh region, claiming Baku was attempting "ethnic cleansing" successful the region, which has a ample taste Armenian population.

"On September 19, Azerbaijan unleashed different large-scale [act of] aggression against the radical of Nagorno-Karabakh, aiming to implicit its argumentation of taste cleansing," Armenia's Foreign Ministry said.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Azerbaijan says humanitarian routes opened

Azerbaijan has said that it is opening humanitarian routes for civilians arsenic it proceeded with what it called "anti-terrorist" operations successful the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. 

"To guarantee the evacuation of the colonisation from the hazard zone, humanitarian corridors and reception points person been established connected the Lachin roadworthy and successful different directions," the Defense Ministry said successful a statement.

The Lachin corridor connects the enclave to Armenia.

Nagorno-Karabakh had been chopped disconnected from much-needed assistance since December, erstwhile Azerbaijan closed the 1 roadworthy connecting the portion to Armenia. The International Committee of the Red Cross was yet capable to send trucks afloat of nutrient and medicine to the portion connected Monday, a time before Azerbaijan's subject action.

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 said that Russia's war successful Ukraine has distracted Moscow since it began.

09/19/2023September 19, 2023

Baku demands 'complete withdrawal' of Armenian forces from Karabakh

Azerbaijan 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 said nary unit oregon instrumentality was present 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

Armenian separatists accidental portion 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.

The AFP quality bureau said its newsman successful the portion heard blasts connected Tuesday successful the Armenian separatist stronghold of Stepanakert successful Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Reuters quality bureau besides reported, citing authorities successful the region, that Azerbaijan was bombarding with rockets and artillery on the full frontline astir the upland enclave.

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 Nagorno-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)