Azerbaijan said on Sunday that Armenian forces fired rockets at its second city of Ganja, killing one civilian and wounding four, and threatened to retaliate by destroying military targets in Armenia
The developments marked a sharp escalation of the war in the South Caucasus that broke out one week ago.
He said there were also civilian casualties in another Azeri region, Beylagan, which borders Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said: “The attacks of Armenia targeting the civilians in Ganja...are a new manifestation of Armenia’s unlawful attitude. We condemn these attacks.”Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Twitter his forces had captured the town of Jabrail and several villages in what, if confirmed, would be a significant advance on the southern edge of Nagorno-Karabakh.dismissed the claim as “yet another fabrication”. Independent verification was not possible.
Azerbaijan has previously accused Armenia of firing into its territory from Vardenis, and Yerevan has denied it. Armenia says two civilians were killed in and near Vardenis last week by cross-border fire from Azerbaijan.Armenia says Azerbaijan has used the airport in Ganja as a base for its warplanes to carry out bombing raids on Nagorno-Karabakh.“Permanent military units located in the large cities of Azerbaijan from now on become the targets of the defence army,” he said.
Armenia said on Saturday it would use “all necessary means” to protect ethnic Armenians from attack by Azerbaijan, and its prime minster compared the struggle with a 20th century war against Ottoman Turkey.
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