Azerbaijan’s forces fired artillery at Armenian positions in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
As tensions escalate again between Armenia and Azerbaijan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken voices support for Armenia.Red Cross shipments of flour and medical supplies reached Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, but local officials said roads to the region were not fully open.
The hostilities come amid high tensions between Armenia and its longtime ally Russia. Armenia has complained repeatedly that the 2,000-member Russian peacekeeping force was unable or unwilling to keep the road to Armenia open, even though that duty was stipulated in the agreement that ended the 2020 war.
Armenia also angered Russia, which has a military base in the country, by holding military exercises with the United States this month and by moving toward ratifying the Rome Convention that created the International Criminal Court, which has indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denied Tuesday that Russia was told in advance of Azerbaijan’s intention to mount the operation, saying the peacekeepers were notified only “a few minutes” before it began.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was “concerned by a drastic escalation of tensions and the beginning of hostilities” in the region, and that the Russian military was in touch with its Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts, trying “to bring back the process of settling [the conflict] back onto political-diplomatic track.”said “the use of force to resolve disputes is unacceptable and runs counter to efforts to create conditions for a just and dignified peace in the region.
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