Early on Tuesday, Russian news media reported that fighting broke out between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces, resuming long-standing hostilities related to the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijan reported suffering losses among its soldiers during the six-week fight that restored complete authority over the region in 2020. Losses were not mentioned, however, Armenia did state that fighting continued overnight.

According to Interfax, the administration of Yerevan declared it will invoke a cooperation pact with Russia and make a case to the UN Security Council as well as the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a security organization dominated by Russia.


Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has phoned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French President Emmanuel Macron in addition to Russian President Vladimir Putin to address the issue.

As a result of allegations of assaults along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the United States is urging an immediate cessation of hostilities. On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken remarked.

According to a statement from the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry, "several locations, shelters and reinforced sites of the Azerbaijan armed forces... came under severe fire from weapons of various calibers, including mortars, by elements of the Armenian army."

There are personnel casualties and damage to the military infrastructure as a result.

When both sides were still under Soviet control in the late 1980s, conflict initially erupted, and Armenian troops took control of huge swaths of land close to Nagorno-Karabakh, long recognized as Azerbaijani territory but home to a sizable Armenian community.


Those areas were reclaimed by Azerbaijan during the war in 2020, which came to a conclusion with a truce mediated by Russia and the return of thousands of displaced citizens to their homes.

Since then, the leaders of the two nations have had several meetings to work out a treaty that would bring about permanent peace.