According to Baku, clashes in Karabakh continued on Sunday morning. At the same time, the authorities in the self-proclaimed Artsakh Republic (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) said that Azerbaijani forces attacked Stepanakert overnight, as air emergency sirens sounded at least three times.
A military confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan along the contact line in the Nagorno-Karabakh region flared up on 27 September. Following the escalation, Yerevan declared martial law and - for the first time - general mobilisation, while partial mobilisation was introduced by Baku.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out in the late 1980s, with the predominantly Armenian-populated autonomous region proclaiming independence from Azerbaijan in 1991. As a result, Baku and Yerevan waged a full-scale war between 1992 and 1994 that claimed the lives of around 40,000 troops and civilians from both sides.
A ceasefire was signed in 1994, and the conflict remained frozen, while the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic continues to be an unrecognised state.