A car with Russian peacekeepers onboard has been shelled in Nagorno-Karabakh, disputed South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the service members have been killed, the Russian Defence Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The ministry said that Russian and Azerbaijani agencies were investigating the incident at the site, adding that the shelling was conducted using firearms. The number of killed service members was not specified.
The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic that is legally part of Azerbaijan but whose largely Armenian population broke away from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, said they had agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Russia’s peacekeeping mission in the region. The agreement also stipulates the complete withdrawal of “the remaining Armenian Armed Force service members” from the region and the full disarmament of the “Nagorno-Karabakh defence army”, essentially handing control of the entire region back to Azerbaijan.