⁍ Azerbaijan and Armenia accuse each other of serious violations and crimes against civilians.

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⁍ Both sides also said it had launched airstrikes as a day-old humanitarian ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh looked increasingly frayed.

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⁍ Russian-brokered ceasefire was meant to halt fighting to allow ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azeri forces to swap prisoners and war dead.

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– A ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh went into effect at midnight yesterday, but within hours it was being called into question by both sides. Azerbaijan accused Armenia of shelling a residential area in the city of Ganja in the early hours of the morning, killing nine, while Armenia accused Azerbaijan of violating the ceasefire almost immediately with an attack on Nagorno-Karabakh’s main city of Stepanakert, the New York Times reports. Reuters reports that both sides accused the other of breaking the ceasefire almost immediately. The ceasefire was brokered by Russia and was intended to allow a prisoner swap between the two sides and the release of war dead. Azerbaijan accused Armenia of launching a rocket attack on a hydro-electric power station in Mingachevir, and Armenia accused Azerbaijan of continuing to shell populated areas inside Nagorno-Karabakh, including Stepanakert, the region’s biggest city. The leader of ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh accused Azerbaijan of trying to take control of the town of Hadrut, and said the process of the two sides exchanging prisoners should have started on Sunday, but that it was unclear if and when that would happen. He accused Azeri forces of trying to unsuccessfully take control of the town of Hadrut, and said the process of the two sides exchanging prisoners should have started on Sunday, but that it was unclear if and when that would happen. Armenia’s foreign minister is due in Moscow for talks with officials from the OSCE’s Minsk group on Monday.