Azerbaijan says Armenian forces shell second city in escalation of week-long conflict

Azerbaijan announced on Sunday that Armenian forces had shelled its second city of Ganja in an acceleration of the war in the South Caucasus that broke out one week ago.

Armenia rejected that it had charged fire “of any kind” towards Azerbaijan, but the leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, declared his forces had destroyed a military airbase in Ganja.

“Delivering fire on the territory of Azerbaijan from the territory of Armenia is clearly provocative and expands the zone of hostilities,” Azeri Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov said.