The bitter preventing within the Caucasus area has claimed a whole lot of lives until now. (File)
Stepanakert:
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces accused one another of bombing civilian areas on Saturday morning forward of a ceasefire agreed to finish practically two weeks of heavy preventing over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The area’s ombudsman Artak Beglaryan mentioned Azerbaijan had fired missiles on civilian areas of its principal metropolis Stepanakert, which has been below common rocket and artillery hearth.
“Baku makes use of the identical model of #WarCrimes by the final second,” Artak Beglaryan mentioned on Twitter, including that there was no info but on casualties.
An AFP journalist within the metropolis reported listening to two explosions within the morning, after Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to the ceasefire from midday Saturday (0800 GMT).
Azerbaijan’s defence ministry mentioned Armenian forces have been shelling civilian areas of the nation.
“Armenian armed forces are intensively shelling populated areas in Geranboy, Terter, Agdam, Agjaberdi, and Fizuli districts. Azerbaijan is taking reciprocal measures,” the ministry mentioned in a press release.
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to the ceasefire within the early hours of Saturday, after 11 hours of Russian-mediated talks in Moscow.
The bitter preventing within the Caucasus area has claimed a whole lot of lives, compelled 1000’s to flee, and stirred fears of a full-blown struggle that would suck in regional powers Turkey and Russia.
Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned the 2 sides had agreed on the talks to start “substantive negotiations” to finish the battle over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave that broke away from Azerbaijan throughout a struggle within the 1990s that claimed some 30,000 lives.
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