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Two years after 44-Day War, Azerbaijan still continues aggressive actions against Artsakh and Armenia

Two years ago, on September 27th, Armenians woke up to news that Azerbaijan is attacking Artsakh. Although it was momentarily clear that this attack wasn’t the usual border skirmish, no one would’ve thought that it was the beginning of an all-out war that would last six weeks.

Two years after 44-Day War, Azerbaijan still continues aggressive actions against Artsakh and Armenia

Two years after 44-Day War, Azerbaijan still continues aggressive actions against Artsakh and Armenia
STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 27, ARTSAKHPRESS-ARMENPRESS: With overt Turkish support and involvement of foreign mercenaries, the Azerbaijani military launched a war of conquest, with indiscriminate bombardments of towns and cities of Artsakh, including the capital city of Stepanakert.
Village homes, apartments, churches and even the maternity hospital of Stepanakert were hit by Azeri strikes.
The Armenian and Artsakhi governments declared martial law and mobilization of reservists, while many people were voluntarily signing up to the military to be deployed to the frontline and defend the nation.
During the entire course of the war, the Azerbaijani military used prohibited munitions against Artsakh, including against civilians. Large-scale evidence exists on torture committed by the Azeri authorities against Armenian captives.
Despite humanitarian ceasefire agreements reached with mediation of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairing countries, Azerbaijan was violating it almost immediately after taking effect.
After 44 days, on the night of November 9-10, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Russia-backed ceasefire agreement ending the war, officially known as the Statement of the President of the Russian Federation, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia.
The ceasefire agreement deployed around 2000 Russian peacekeepers to Artsakh.
To this day, Azerbaijan refuses to implement the agreements of the ceasefire and hasn’t returned all Armenian captives. After its provocative actions in Artsakh, Azerbaijan has also started an open aggression against Armenia. In May 2021 the Azerbaijani forces infiltrated into Armenia’s sovereign territory and have not pulled back till now. On September 13, 2022 Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military attack on Armenia from several directions, targeting also the civilian settlements. A ceasefire was achieved with the involvement of the international community, but the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border still remains tense.

     

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