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War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Attacks continue - Merkel is apparently supposed to intervene now

2020-10-04T07:44:54.292Z


A ceasefire is a long way off in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Mediation has so far failed, the violence continues.


A ceasefire is a long way off in the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Mediation has so far failed, the violence continues.

  • No ceasefire is in sight in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

  • The

    war in Nagorno-Karabakh

    may have already claimed several hundred lives.

  • This ticker is updated continuously.

Update from October 4, 9:15 a.m.:

Armenia

has

accused

Turkey of

being directly involved in the fighting.

"There are 150 high-ranking Turkish officers who lead Azerbaijan's military operations," said

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

in a speech to his people on Saturday evening.

"The scale of the offensive is unprecedented."

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev

had previously said that Turkey, as an ally of his country, was not involved in the fighting.

There is fighting across the front line, said Pashinyan.

"We are facing a fateful chapter in our history." The

Armenian people are the

target of Azerbaijan and Turkey, said the head of government.

On Saturday evening, the

Armenian agency

Armenpress reported, he

phoned

Chancellor Angela Merkel

for the second time within a few days

.

She informed them about the involvement of

Turkish military officers

Aliyev, in turn, thanked Turkish President

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

for his help

in a letter published by his office that evening

.

He pointed out that

Turkey

condemned

Armenia's

actions

.

War in Nagorno-Karabakh: New attacks from Azerbaijan - power grid collapses

Update from October 4, 9:00 a.m.:

The capital of the self-proclaimed

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was

again the target of attacks on Sunday.

In

Stepanakert

sirens wailed in the morning, shortly afterwards the city was

shaken

by

explosions

.

This was reported by AFP reporters.

In addition, the Russian news agency Interfax reported, citing the foreign ministry of the self-appointed republic, a "

rocket fire

" in Stepanakert.

The residents hid in basements and shelters to protect themselves from the attacks.

On Sunday night, the power supply in Stepanakert collapsed because the

Azerbaijani attacks

had hit “a power supply facility”, according to the local foreign ministry.

On Saturday night,

Armenian attacks

on 19

Azerbaijani villages

had been reported, whereupon the

Azerbaijani side announced

a "counterstrike". 

There is currently no reliable information

on the

number of victims

.

Both parties to the conflict speak of thousands of fighters killed on the opponent's side.

War in Nagorno-Karabakh: New battles at the weekend - Russia and Turkey in the middle of the conflict

Yerevan / Baku - The acts of war in the border region of

Armenia

and

Azerbaijan

continued over the weekend.

Both states reported fighting in the

Nagorno-Karabakh

area

, which belongs to Azerbaijan but has been controlled by Armenia for decades.

The information on the previous victims of the war, which is progressing on the edge of Europe, differ.

According to Armenian data, the

death toll

could be

well over 200.

Turkey and Russia are involved in what is happening on different sides.

War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Both states report new battles

Armenia said

troops

from Azerbaijan had advanced to Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday, October 3rd, both from the north and from the south.

Azerbaijan again reported that Armenia had shelled several places on its territory.

From the point of view of Azerbaijan, the Nagorno-Karabakh region is illegally occupied by Armenia.

Accordingly, head of state

Ilham Aliyev

justified

the advance of his army against Emanuel Macron.

The French President tried to find a peaceful solution in a telephone conversation.

He

could not achieve

a

truce

.

Like Russia and the US, France has been a long-time mediator in the conflict.

Turkey and Russia are indirectly involved in the Nagorno-Karabakh war

The international significance of the war is also due to the different protective powers of the participating states.

Thus, the true

Turkey

as an ally of Azerbaijan, while

Russia

is on the side of Armenia.

With the current escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, concerns are growing about the role Turkey might play.

Armenia has accused Turkey of

relocating

thousands of

mercenaries

from the war zones in Syria and Libya to the

South Caucasus

.

Russia had also spoken of plausible evidence of this.

After a week

, the

warring parties

seem

to be a long way from

a peaceful agreement

even without outside interference. Azerbaijan's President Aliyev rejected further negotiations with Armenia: “We do not have time to wait another 30 years. The conflict has to be resolved now. ”Both parties initially continue to seek the solution by force of arms.

Source: merkur

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