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With food shortages and blackouts, rumors of revenge-taking abound — and are flatly denied by the Azerbaijani authorities.

After an Azerbaijani flash offensive against forces in Nagorno-Karabakh shifted the political landscape in the region, Baku says it plans to reintegrate Karabakh and its ethnic Armenian population into Azerbaijan. But the details remain far from clear.

“The Russian Socialist Movement statement called on Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and open negotiations without any preconditions, and on the international community to immediately impose sanctions against the leadership of Azerbaijan.”

Russian peacekeepers have evacuated as many as 5,000 civilians from three districts in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Residents of disputed Nagorno-Karabakh have endured war and a months-long blockade

From fleeing civilians to damaged residential buildings, here's what open source can tell us about Azerbaijan's attack on Nagorno-Karabakh.

In 1991, during the parade of sovereignty and the formation of new sovereign states, Nagorno-Karabakh de jure became part of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan, however, on September 2, 1991, the region proclaimed itself the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) within the USSR

No specific details have been provided regarding the number of Russian troops killed.

Azerbaijan and representatives of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh ceased hostilities on September 20 through the mediation of Russian peacekeepers, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.