On September 20, Azerbaijani military units attacked air defense facilities, along with several communication centers and Armenian military command posts in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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| Azerbaijan's "anti-terrorist" military campaign is heating up the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. (Source: Turkiye) |
Hikmet Hajiyev, an aide to the President of Azerbaijan and the main spokesman for the Nagorno-Karabakh operation, said the country’s air force plans to deliver a decisive blow to Armenian military groups and defenses in the region. According to Hajiyev, the Azerbaijani military is carrying out the operation faster than initially expected.
The move signals a new phase in the long-running conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which has become more complicated since December 2022, when a group of Azerbaijanis blocked the Lachin Corridor, the only land route connecting Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
While Azerbaijan demands an end to illegal mining in some mines in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia blames Baku for the humanitarian crisis in the region.
In response to this tense new development, Russian peacekeeping forces have evacuated more than 2,000 civilians from the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a separatist region controlled by ethnic Armenians.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, more than 2,000 people have been evacuated from the area, after Azerbaijan began an "anti-terrorist" military operation on September 19 in the region - where the majority of Armenians live.
According to the latest information on September 20 , the Azerbaijani presidential office revealed that in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that he would stop the country's military campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh if "Armenian separatists lay down their arms".
According to the leader, representatives of the Armenian people living in the Nagorno-Karabakh region have been invited to dialogue with the Azerbaijani government to discuss reintegration issues, but they have refused. However, these people will continue to be invited to dialogue as “local counter-terrorism measures continue”.
For his part, Secretary of State Blinken expressed deep concern over Azerbaijan's military campaign and called on Baku to "immediately halt these actions."
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