The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia continues to claim victims on Monday.
Since Sunday and the outbreak of hostilities, at least 39 people have died in the region of Nagorno Karabakh, better known as Nagorno Karabakh, a secessionist province supported by Armenia?
32 Armenian soldiers have been killed since Sunday morning and the start of the fighting, according to the separatists' Defense Ministry.
Five Azerbaijani civilians and two Armenian civilians from Karabakh also died.
Azerbaijan has not announced its military losses.
The toll could be much heavier however, the two camps claiming to have inflicted hundreds of losses on the adversary, and diffusing images of destroyed tanks in particular.
The Karabakh Defense Ministry also said it had regained positions lost the day before, but Azerbaijan on the contrary claimed to have made further territorial gains.
The Azerbaijani armed forces “strike enemy positions with rockets, artillery and aircraft […] and have taken several strategic positions on the outskirts of the village of Talych.
The enemy is retreating, ”said the defense ministry of this Caucasian country which has spent lavishly on armaments in recent years thanks to its oil manna.
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After weeks of war rhetoric, Azerbaijan said it had launched a major “counteroffensive” in response to Armenian “aggression”.
It uses its artillery, tanks and aerial bombardments on this province.
It has escaped him since the fall of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) in the early 1990s and a war that left 30,000 dead, leaving Karabakh under the control of separatists, supported by Armenia.
"Turkish helicopters"
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian accused his historic enemy of "declaring war on the Armenian people" while Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev vowed to "win".
These fights, the deadliest since 2016, have caused international concern, with the United Nations, Russia, France and the United States calling in particular for an immediate ceasefire.
Turkey has signified its full support for Azerbaijan, but Armenia has accused it of political and military interference in the conflict.
Russia, which maintains cordial relations with the two belligerents and is the great regional arbiter, is however closer to Armenia, the two countries belonging to the same military alliance dominated by Russia, the Collective Security Treaty Organization. .
The president of the self-proclaimed republic assures us that “Turkey, and not only Azerbaijan, is fighting against Nagorno Karabakh.
There are Turkish helicopters, F-16 planes, troops and mercenaries from different countries ”.
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In July, Armenians and Azerbaijanis clashed for several days on their northern border, reflecting growing tensions for months.
The two states decreed martial law and Armenia general mobilization.
Azerbaijan imposes a curfew.
An open war between the two countries raises fears of a serious destabilization of the region, especially if Turkey and Russia, which have divergent interests in the South Caucasus, intervene in the conflict.