Suspects in death of Russian peacekeepers detained

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, in a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, offered condolences and apologies over the deaths of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh on Wednesday.

 Initial suspects have been detained, while the commander of the Azerbaijani armed forces corps, whose subordinates are guilty of shelling Russian peacekeepers, has been suspended.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on September 20 that a car carrying Russian peacekeepers came under fire in Nagorno-Karabakh as they were returning from an observation post. All those in the vehicle were killed.