Tag Archives: Heavy shelling and civilian casualties dash hopes for Karabakh ceasefire

Hopes that a Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan might hold were further eroded on Sunday, with both sides accusing the other of intensive shelling of civilian areas and escalating two weeks of fierce clashes. Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said that overnight shelling by Armenian forces on the country’s second largest city, Ganja, had left at least seven people dead and …

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