Russia accuses Azerbaijan of attacking a disputed region in the South Caucasus
An Armenian soldier walks in a border trench with Azerbaijan.
Reuters
Russia has accused Azerbaijan of invading an area under the responsibility of the peacekeeping forces that Moscow has sent to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the South Caucasus.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Azerbaijani forces carried out four strikes by drones in the past few days near the town of Forush in the area also claimed by Armenia.
She added that he had asked Azerbaijan to withdraw its forces.
According to media outlets, the unilaterally proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic temporarily declared a state of war.
Three Armenians were killed in the latest fighting, which took place on Friday.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry also accused Azerbaijan of invading the areas under Russian control.
Recently, Azerbaijan denied this and spoke of "sabotage acts" by the Armenian side.
In the fall of 2020, Azerbaijan regained large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been controlled by Armenia for decades, in a short war.
A truce was declared between the two parties, supervised by the Russian forces.
Despite that, armed clashes continued.
Several media outlets recently suspected that Russia withdrew soldiers from Karabakh for use in the war on Ukraine.
This, in turn, has destabilized the situation in the South Caucasus.
Moscow's Defense Ministry said Russian peacekeepers were now trying to resolve the situation.
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