US Congress member Linda Sanchez from the Republican Party has urged Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev to abide by the ceasefire and end hostilities in Karabakh.

Executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), Aram Hamparian, tweeted about the aforesaid.

“I strongly condemn Azerbaijan’s aggression against Nagorno Karabakh which has killed many Armenian soldiers and civilians,” Sanchez said in a statement. “This escalation of violence risks engulfing the entire region into a long and bloody conflict. I am calling on Azerbaijan to abide by the ceasefire and end hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh.”

The situation at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone dramatically escalated in the early morning hours on April 2. From regular shootings and frequent sabotage-reconnaissance attempts, Azerbaijan switched to large-scale attacks all along the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact, using a variety of weaponry as well as artillery, armored vehicles, and air force. Both sides have suffered casualties.