⁍ The truce agreed on Saturday came into force at midnight.

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⁍ A week-old Russian-brokered ceasefire failed to halt the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s.

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⁍ At least 750 people have been killed since fighting began on Sept. 27.

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– The worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s has killed at least 750 people since fighting erupted over the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Sept. 27. Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a new ceasefire that came into effect at midnight yesterday, hours after it was agreed, Reuters reports. Azerbaijan’s defense ministry says its troops shot down an Armenian warplane, while Armenia says its troops opened fire from large-caliber weapons along the border. Armenia said the Azeri army had fired twice during the night and used artillery and accused Baku of rejecting its request to withdraw the wounded soldiers from the battlefield. “This step … was categorically rejected by Baku,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. Azerbaijan called the statement misinformation. The ministry said that Azeri military units downed Armenian Su-25 warplane, “which was attempting to inflict airstrikes on the positions of the Azeri army in Jabrail region.” Yerevan swiftly denied that. Officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said Azeri forces had launched an attack on the enclave’s military positions and there were casualties and wounded on both sides. Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountain territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but populated and governed by ethnic Armenians. The ceasefire earlier this month was aimed at letting the sides swap detainees and bodies of those killed in the clashes, but it had little impact on the fighting around the enclave. The new truce was announced after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov talked to his Armenian and Azeri counterparts and called on sides to observe the ceasefire that he mediated a week ago.