Azerbaijan announced that it has deployed its forces in the strategically important town of “Lachin” near the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Lachin was once under the control of neighboring Armenia.
“Today, August 26, we Azerbaijanis have returned to the city of Lachin,” President Ilham Aliyev wrote on Twitter Friday.
The “Lachin Corridor” runs through the city, a six-kilometre-long road that connects Armenia with the Nagorno-Karabakh region claimed by both former Soviet republics.
During the last Karabakh war in 2020, Azerbaijan regained large parts of the region and the Armenians lost Lachin, and the city has since come under the temporary control of Russia, which was mediating in the war and then sent soldiers to monitor the respect of the ceasefire between the two sides.
The ceasefire agreement provided for Lachin handover to Azerbaijani soldiers. However, there is disagreement as to whether all the conditions for this are actually fulfilled or not.
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