A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin Corridor, the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region's only land link with Armenia.
Russia as mediator in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, on Saturday accused Baku of violating the ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 war between these two countries by leaving its troops cross the demarcation line.
On [Saturday], a unit of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces crossed the line of contact in the Shusha district, in violation of the agreement reached in 2020, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
According to Moscow, Azerbaijani troops occupied a height and began the installation of a post.
The Russian peacekeepers on the spot take measures intended to prevent an escalation of the crisis situation and to avoid mutual provocations of the opposing parties.
“The Azerbaijani side has been informed of the need to comply with the provisions [of the agreement], to take measures to stop the engineering works and withdraw the armed forces to the positions they had previously occupied.
—The Russian Defense Ministry
Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, clashed in a short war in 2020 for control of the enclave of Nagorny-Karabakh.
This conflict resulted in an Armenian military rout and a Russian-sponsored ceasefire agreement, which deployed peacekeepers there.
< p class="e-p">Deadly clashes in Nagorny-Karabakh or on the border between these two countries, however, continue to break out periodically.
Armenia has also been warning for several weeks about a humanitarian crisis in Karabakh due to an Azerbaijani blockade that has caused shortages of medicine and food as well as cuts in food. electricity.
Yerevan accuses Russian peacekeepers of not acting to end this blockade.
Mostly mountainous region populated by Armenians and which seceded from Azerbaijan at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh continues to poison relations between Yerevan and Baku.
The first conflict, in the early 1990s, during the dismantling of the USSR, which left 30,000 dead, ended in an Armenian victory with support from Moscow.
However, Azerbaijan got its revenge in the fall of 2020 in a second war, which did 6500 m orts and which allowed him to take over many territories.
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