Russia has offered its mediation efforts to reduce tensions between Baku and Yerevan, reported on Wednesday, September 30, the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported that on Wednesday a telephone conversation took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed concern about tensions in the region and stressed the importance of achieving a ceasefire. He offered Russia to mediate in efforts to reduce tensions both within the country and with other co-chairs of the Minsk Group, ”the publication says.
On September 30, the Ministry of Defense of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic reported that since the beginning of hostilities on September 27, 104 servicemen of the NKR army were killed.
On the same day, the press secretary of the president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Vahram Poghosyan, said that after the bombing by Azerbaijani aviation in the Karabakh city of Martakert, three civilians were killed.
On September 29, Armenia announced the destruction of 137 armored vehicles of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, 72 drones, seven helicopters and one aircraft in Nagorno-Karabakh. Yerevan also accused Baku and the Turkish Armed Forces of destroying its Su-25 attack aircraft in the airspace of Armenia.
On September 28, Armenia announced the deaths of 28 servicemen during a clash in Karabakh.
Relations between Yerevan and Baku remain tense over the issue of the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh. The region, located in the eastern part of the Armenian Highlands, announced its secession from the Azerbaijan SSR in 1988. Baku considers this territory to be its own.
Since 1992, negotiations have been held on a peaceful settlement of the conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, headed by three co-chairs – Russia, the United States and France.