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Azerbaijan Launches Major ‘Ground Operation’ In Karabakh Against Armenians

by mosesman

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  • Azerbaijan Launches Major ‘Ground Operation’ In Karabakh Against Armenians
    by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
    Azerbaijan’s military has attacked areas of Nagorno-Karabakh under Armenian control in a major action which shatters the unsteady regional peace in a significant first since the 2020 war which lasted for six weeks. Karabakh representatives have said a “large-scale military offensive” is targeting Armenian holdouts, and have accused Azeri forces of having “violated the ceasefire along the entire line of contact with missile-artillery strikes.”
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    But Azerbaijan’s defense ministry has blamed Armenian forces for provocations, citing “systematic shelling” of Azeri army positions. Baku has dubbed this an operation against “local, anti-terrorist activities… to disarm and secure the withdrawal of formations of Armenia’s armed forces from our territories.”
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    “Air raid sirens and mortar fire were heard in Karabakh’s main city,” BBC writes, noting that a fragile ceasefire collapsed especially after “eleven Azerbaijani police and civilians have been reported killed in a mine blast and another incident.”
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    Moscow is monitoring the situation closely, given some 2-3,000 Russian peacekeepers have been in the region as part of the post-war settlement that emerged after 2020. But lately Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had complained that Russian forces were “spontaneously leaving the region”.
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