STEPANAKERT, Oct 12 — A Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to hold yesterday, with both sides accusing the other of intensive shelling of civilian areas and escalating two weeks of fierce clashes. The two sides had agreed to pause hostilities to exchange prisoners...
Monday, 12 Oct 2020 06:58 AM MYT
Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said that overnight shelling by Armenian forces of the country's second largest city, Ganja, had left at least seven people dead and 33 wounded including children, less than 24 hours after the halt to fighting was supposed to take effect. The truce negotiated in marathon Russia-brokered talks in Moscow officially entered into force at noon on Saturday, but both sides almost immediately accused each other of violations.
EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell said there was “extreme concern” in the bloc over “continued military activities, including against civilian targets, as well as civilian casualties.”An AFP journalist in the administrative capital of Stepanakert, which has been subjected to heavy bombing since the fighting erupted and is pockmarked with deep craters and unexploded ordnance, reported hearing loud explosions throughout the night.
Its separatist government is strongly backed — but not officially recognised as independent — by Armenia, which like Azerbaijan gained independence with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.The most recent bout of fighting has been the heaviest since the 1990s war, with more than 450 people reported dead, thousands forced to flee their homes.
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