Chaos and Crisis as Azerbaijan Attacks Nagorno-Karabakh - bellingcat
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From fleeing civilians to damaged residential buildings, here's what open source can tell us about Azerbaijan's attack on Nagorno-Karabakh.
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    Siranush Sargsyan, a freelance journalist in Nagorno-Karabakh, shared videos showing destroyed civilian vehicles and damage to apartment buildings on Azatamartikneri Avenue (39.821232, 46.758423) in downtown Stepanakert.

    The television channel of Russia’s military, TV Zvezda, also released footage of Russian peacekeepers letting a large group of Armenian civilians into the base.

    A statement posted to Russia’s Defence Ministry website on September 20 notes that Russian peacekeepers evacuated 3,154 people from the Mardakert, Martuni and Askeran Regions.

    It is not known whether these are the civilians seen in the videos mentioned above.Given extensive cloud cover over the airport yesterday, Bellingcat tasked a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite image of the site.

    Every time territory has changed hands in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, ethnic cleansing has taken place,” said Laurence Broers, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, in comments to Bellingcat.“The previous nine months of blockade followed by yesterday’s offensive are not the ideal background to discussions of co-existence.

    This is not a setting that can provide for a successful process, which would need painstaking negotiations and transitional arrangements.”Bellingcat will continue to monitor the situation to track the humanitarian consequences of this latest escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.

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