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Azerbaijan and Armenia traded accusations of ceasefire violations after Russia said it secured a humanitarian truce in overnight talks with the two former Soviet republics.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Armenians continued to fire on its positions south, east and northeast of the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia’s Defense Ministry denied that and accused Baku
of attacking, while the armed forces in Nagorno-Karabakh said in a Facebook post that they were “returning fire†from Azerbaijan in the south.
Moscow hosted the first talks between the bitter rivals to seek a halt to the worst fighting in decades over Nagorno-Karabakh, a landlocked region in the South Caucasus. The ceasefire was set to start at 12 pm local time.
Armenia and Azerbaijan will start “substantive negotiations†to resolve the long-running territorial clash and fix parameters for the cease-fire, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday after more than 10 hours of talks.