Azerbaijan said on Wednesday its military operation in Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh continued successfully after the U.S. called on it to halt hostilities and Moscow urged both sides to stop the bloodshed in the disputed region.
After months of rising tensions in the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijan this weekstrikes into the region in an attempt to bring the breakaway region to heel.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held calls with both Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, urging Azerbaijan to "immediately cease military actions" and de-escalate the situation. Armenia took control of large swathes of territory in a war that unfolded as the Soviet Union collapsed. Azerbaijan took most of it back in a six-week conflict in 2020, ended by a Russian-brokered truce.
Moscow called early on Wednesday on both sides to stop the bloodshed and hostilities and return to the implementation of the 2020 ceasefire agreement.
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