![]() ![]() ![]() The incident led to Azerbaijan completely closing the Lachin corridor linking Armenia and Artsakh, intensifying the humanitarian crisis in the latter.2 Azerbaijan subsequently allowed medical evacuations from Artsakh to Armenia and the movement of medical supplies to the enclave,3 after Russian peacekeepers airlifted a critically ill baby from Artsakh to Armenia.4 Despite the violence and inflammatory announcements, both sides claimed unspecified progress during United States-mediated peace talks on a draft agreement.5 Prior to the negotiations, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov dismissed Armenian demands that security guarantees be provided to ethnic Armenians remaining in Artsakh as part of any settlement.6 In addition, a senior Azerbaijani military officer threatened the use of force against Artsakh armed formations in response to “provocations or illegal actions.”7 The Russian checkpoint is located on a bridge over the Hakari river, where Azerbaijan installed a checkpoint of its own in late April. During fighting in June, at least four military fatalities were reported, all due to Azerbaijani drone strikes at Artsakh positions on 28 June.Īmid escalating tensions, Armenian forces shot at Azerbaijani border guards attempting to install an Azerbaijani flag in front of a Russian peacekeepers’ border checkpoint on 15 June. In addition to hotspots around Artsakh and along Armenia’s eastern border with Azerbaijan, a significant number of ceasefire violations occurred around the Armenian town of Yeraskh on the border with Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave. ![]() ACLED records 126 armed clashes in June, compared with 82 and 87 in September and November last year. ![]() Overall levels of armed violence reached their highest point since the latest major spike in hostilities in the region in autumn 2022. Armenia-Azerbaijan: Fighting intensifies further amid near-complete blockade of ArtsakhĪrmed clashes along the Armenia-Artsakh1-Azerbaijan Line of Contact more than doubled in June compared to May. ![]()
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