Armenia accused Turkey on Thursday of blocking flights carrying emergency aid from using its airspace, and new fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave threatened to pitch the region into a humanitarian crisis.
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of violating a ceasefire brokered less than a week ago to enable the sides to swap detainees and the bodies of those killed in the clashes, which erupted on Sept.27.
The flare-up is the deadliest since the 1990s, when 30,000 people were killed in a war over Nagorno-Karabakh tmsnrt.rs/30GEXJd, a territory that is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but governed by ethnic Armenians.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Twitter Armenia should “halt attempts to capture liberated territories back,” and warned of “new victims and new bloodshed”.
Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said its army had retained an “operational advantage” along the line of contact with Nagorno-Karabakh, but that the situation in the Aghdere-Aghdam and Fizuli-Hadrut-Jabrail directions remained tense.