The Azerbaijani defence ministry announced the start of the operation hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions.
Ethnic Armenian officials reported at least two civilians were killed and 23 wounded when Azerbaijan’s forces opened fire on Tuesday on Armenian positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in what it called an “anti-terrorist operation”.
A woman and child shelter during shelling in Stepanakert in the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh human rights ombudsman Geghan Stepanyan said two people were killed in the firing — including one child — and 23 were wounded. At least eight of those injured also are children, according to Mr Stepanyan.
“Maybe what we’re looking at, and again, it’s very early to say, is a kind of limited military action which will try to coerce thousands of Armenians to flee to Armenia. And then Aliyev can achieve his objective of taking over Karabakh with not so much bloodshed,” Mr de Waal told The Associated Press.
Nagorno-Karabakh and sizable surrounding territories were under ethnic Armenian control since the 1994 end of a separatist war, but Azerbaijan regained the territories and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh itself in a six-week war in 2020. That war ended with an armistice that placed a Russian peacekeeper contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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