Russia and Azerbaijan Trade Barbs Over Nagorno-Karabakh | World News

(Reuters) -Russia and Azerbaijan on Sunday traded barbs over the motion of Azeri forces in Nagorno-Karabakh the place a simmering dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan flared right into a six-week battle in 2020.

Azeri troops in 2020 drove ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they’d managed because the Nineties in and round Nagorno-Karabakh earlier than Russia brokered a ceasefire.

Russia stated on Saturday it was deeply involved a few rise in tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh and known as for calm after what it stated had been breaches of the 2020 ceasefire brokered by President Vladimir Putin.

Russia stated Azerbaijan had violated the settlement by permitting its forces to enter a zone policed by Russian peacekeepers close to the village of Farrukh however that Azerbaijan had by Sunday withdrawn the troopers.

Azerbaijan, although, denied the Russian assertion.

“There was no change within the positions of the Azeri military within the village of Farrukh, which is a part of the sovereign territories of our nation,” the Azeri defence ministry stated.

“The details about the withdrawal of models of the Azerbaijani Military from these positions doesn’t replicate the reality. Our military is in full management of the operational state of affairs,” Azerbaijan’s defence ministry stated in a press release.

(Reporting by Reuters; enhancing by Man Faulconbridge, William Maclean)

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