Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Azerbaijani forces just killed 8 Russian soldiers in Karabakh.
A vehicle carrying Russian peacekeepers has been shot in Chankatagh (Janyatag) village in Nagorno Karabakh, as a result a Russian soldier has been killed, the Russia’s Ministry of Defense reports.
“On September 20, a car carrying Russian soldiers was fired upon while returning from the observation post of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Janyatagh village. As a result of the shelling, the Russian servicemen in the car were killed,” the department informed.
Representatives of Russian and Azerbaijani investigative bodies are working on the spot to find out all the circumstances.
Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack against Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19, among the casualties and wounded are civilians. On September 20, it became known that the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh accepted the proposal of the command of the Russian peacekeeping mission regarding the cessation of fire.
Karabakh, a mountainous area in the volatile wider South Caucasus region, is internationally recognised as Azerbaijani territory. But part of it is run by separatist Armenian authorities who say the area is their ancestral homeland.
Karabakh has been at the centre of two wars – the latest in 2020 – since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Azerbaijan to halt its operation immediately, saying it was worsening an already dire humanitarian situation in Karabakh – a reference to a lengthy de facto blockade of the region by Baku.
The European Union, France and Germany also condemned Azerbaijan’s military action, calling on it to return to talks on the future of Karabakh with Armenia.
