A convoy of Russian military trucks entered Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday as Russia continued to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from the depopulated region recaptured by Azerbaijan last September.
Azerbaijan allowed Armenian doctors on Tuesday to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to treat and evacuate scores of people injured in Monday’s powerful explosion at a fuel depot outside Stepanakert.
More than a thousand residents of Nagorno-Karabakh were evacuated to Armenia on Sunday five days after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive in the Armenian-populated region.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and other French local government officials escorted a convoy of trucks to the Lachin corridor on Wednesday in a failed attempt to provide humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh’s population increasingly suffering from the Azerbaijani blockade.
Azerbaijan has allowed several dozen residents of Nagorno-Karabakh to travel to Armenia for the first time since tightening its blockade of the Lachin corridor more than two months ago.
A delegation led by Sarah Arkin and Damian Murphy, representatives of the staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited the site in Armenia’s southern Syunik province where an Armenian truck convoy carrying humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh has been stranded for nearly two weeks.
The United States renewed its calls for the immediate lifting of Azerbaijan’s blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday as Armenian trucks carrying food for Karabakh’s residents remained stuck at the entrance to the Lachin corridor for the third consecutive day.
At least three Azerbaijani and four Armenian soldiers were killed on Tuesday in fresh fighting that broke out on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Armenian security forces on Monday detained one Azerbaijani man and hunted for another, who is also thought to have crossed into Armenia for unclear reasons.
A senior Armenian lawmaker on Friday called for an official inquiry into fresh territorial gains made by Azerbaijan last week along the border with Armenia.
The Armenian government accused Azerbaijan on Tuesday of grossly violating a 2020 ceasefire agreement and creating a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Nagorno-Karabakh as the sole road connecting the territory to Armenia remained closed for a second day.
