Armenians and Azerbaijanis are called to war An Armenian in his late twenties was watching the television news about the fighting with his family in Yerevan when he heard from his local military commissariat. “I got the call at almost midnight” on September 28, he said. He left home to report 20 minutes later and was shipped out to Nagorno-Karabakh the next day. “This is it,” he told Eurasianet. “We don’t have a choice, we’re going all in.”

Azerbaijan launched a heavy offensive early in the morning of September 27, with the apparent aim of taking back substantial parts of the territory that Armenian forces won during the war between the two sides as the Soviet Union collapsed.

With the fighting in its fourth day, the intensity appears to be only growing, making the manpower needs for both sides uncertain. So far, the Armenian side has reported eight civilians and 80 military personnel killed. Azerbaijan has not announced the numbers of military deaths but has reported 14 civilians killed.

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