Peace talks between Azerbaijani officials and the breakaway region’s ethnic Armenian authorities were scheduled to take place on Thursday.
A ceasefire agreement with Azerbaijan has been reached to end two days of fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, local authorities and Azerbaijani officials said.
It comes a day after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh and used heavy artillery fire on Armenian positions there, an attack that local officials said killed or wounded scores of people.Azerbaijan has called the artillery fire an “anti-terrorist operation” and said it will continue until the separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh dismantles itself and “illegal Armenian military formations” surrender.
The escalation has raised concerns that a full-scale war in the region could resume between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which for more than three decades have been locked in a struggle over the mountainous territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The most recent heavy fighting there occurred over six weeks in 2020.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh had evacuated more than 2,000 civilians, but did not give details on where they were taken. Nagorno-Karabakh human rights ombudsman Geghan Stepanyan said on Wednesday that 32 people, including seven civilians, were killed and more than 200 others were wounded. Mr Stepanyan earlier said one child was among those killed, and 11 children were among the wounded.
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