The International Committee of the Red Cross says civilians bearing brunt of surge in violence

The European Council asked the High Representative to examine further EU support for the settlement process.

Russia's UN envoy said the Minsk Group is the only established format that is to help the parties in the Karabakh conflict come to a settlement.

The two Le Monde journalists were covering the current fighting near the town of Martouni/Khojavend

Emanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump called for the immediate cessation of hostilities between the military forces concerned.

Charles Michel spoke to the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders calling for an immediate cease-fire

Dennis Sammut discusses three decades of international effort to resolve the Karabakh conflict

Georgia's Inter-ethnic relations under pressure as fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis rages

They warn about the risk of destabilisation throughout the Caucasus and of a new humanitarian crisis.

Russia has all the hard and soft power tools necessary to influence events in the South Caucasus, but may not want to use them to intervene in the current conflict just yet.