After approximately 10 months of blockade in the region Nagorno-Karabakhmajority Armenian but within recognized territory Azerbaijan, and as tensions have increased in recent weeks, Baku We started a campaign this Tuesday bombings about stepanakertThe capital of this region and other cities, as announced by Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense This is a statement.
In the last hours, Armenian residents of the attacked area have been in a humanitarian emergency. lack of food and medicine In the region – there are news about the first air strikes carried out by Azerbaijan on social media. artillery and unmanned aerial vehicles.
“We threw counterterrorism activities ensuring the suppression, disarmament and removal of provocations armed forces Armenia from our regions. As part of our measures, the front and rear positions, artillery positions and barracks were disabled. high precision weapons“Baku said in a statement assuring that no civilian infrastructure would be attacked.
Azerbaijan as in the 2020 war military superiority The crusher assures that his attack was supposedly in response to a minor Armenian attack. According to the Azerbaijani government, this Tuesday morning mine The bomb planted by “Armenian saboteurs” exploded civilian truck in the region jozhavend. They were going to die in that explosion six people.
A story that repeats itself
For more than a century, the two countries have been fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a mountainous region between both States; Soviet Union. With the dissolution of the USSR and the emergence of two new republics CaucasiaThe first Karabakh war broke out, which ended in 1994. armenian victory and close 30,000 dead.
The conflict was frozen until 2020 with the second Karabakh war: Baku won, thanks to money from Azerbaijan’s underground wealth. Armenia ceded – by force or by ceasefire agreement – all the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh and even its city. ShushaIt ranks second in the region.
Since that time, to get nervousIt went on and on, with ups and downs and the entire area being blocked off. “According to my sources, Azerbaijani forces are attacking. the entire front line of the warThis caused wars everywhere. Simultaneously, artillery, rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles attack various targets in or near the area. civil areas“said the former ombudsman of Karabakh, Artak Beglarian.
“The news of loss of life in a mine explosion in Azerbaijan is tragic,” he said. Toivo Klaarrepresentative European Union In the South Caucasus. But one military action This will only make the situation worse. There is an urgent need immediate ceasefire to be there real dialogue The only way to reach an agreement between Baku and Karabakh Armenians peaceful coexistence“.