Armenian-Backed Forces Say They Hit Base in Azerbaijani City
- Armenia denies Baku’s allegation that it fired the missiles
- Nagorno-Karabakh says it’s targeting military sites in cities
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Armenian-backed forces in the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh said they struck a military airport in Azerbaijan’s second-largest city on Sunday in a major escalation of fighting between the former Soviet republics.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev’s office said the missiles that hit Ganca came from neighboring Armenia, an allegation the Armenian Defense Ministry denied. The missile strike killed one civilian and injured 32 others in a densely populated area of the city and did not hit an air base, the Azeri government in Baku said.