New war breaks out in Nagorno-Karabakh

[Viking]

Random video from the Armenian side of the frontline on the 28th, with lots of incoming shelling.




The rhetoric used by Azerbaijan and Turkey is focused on a military solution to the conflict:

"We only have one condition: Armenian armed forces must unconditionally, fully, and immediately leave our lands," President Ilham Aliyev said.

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Turkey says it is "fully ready" to help Azerbaijan recover the enclave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54356334


Credible reports of Turkey paying Syrian mercenaries to go Azerbaijan are also emerging.

With Turkey firmly backing one side and Russia being at the core of a military alliance that includes the other, there is ample room for escalation.