⁍ Armenia accused Azeri forces of shelling civilian settlements.
⁍ Baku denied killing civilians and said it was ready to implement a ceasefire.
⁍ Local officials in Nagorno-Karabakh accused Azeri forces of firing artillery on settlements.
– New fighting has erupted between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Reuters reports. Local officials in Nagorno-Karabakh accused Azeri forces of firing artillery on settlements in the areas of Askeran and Martuni during the night. Armenia accused Azeri forces of shelling civilian settlements. Baku denied killing civilians and said it was ready to implement a ceasefire, provided that Armenian forces withdrew from the battlefield. The weekend’s clashes in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosted the foreign ministers of both countries in a new peace push on Friday. The collapse of two Russia-brokered ceasefires had already dimmed the prospect of a quick end to fighting that broke out on Sept. 27 over Nagorno-Karabakh. The defense ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh said on Saturday the total number of Armenians killed in the fighting had risen by 36 to 963, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. Azerbaijan says 65 Azeri civilians have been killed and 298 wounded, but has not disclosed its military casualties. Armenians regard the enclave as part of their historic homeland; Azeris consider it illegally occupied land that must be returned to their control.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/new-fighting-flares-over-nagorno-karabakh-as-aliyev-warns-against-russian-involvement-idUSKBN27A0CZ