Azerbaijan establishes checkpoint on crucial route to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Azerbaijan has set up a checkpoint on the only road connecting Armenia to the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region for the first time since the 2020 war. The move was in response to a similar move by Armenia. The road has been patrolled by Russian peacekeepers since the end of the war, but skirmishes between the two enemy states have persisted. The US expressed deep concern regarding the Azerbaijani checkpoint, while Armenia condemned it as a "flagrant violation" of the 2020 cease-fire agreement.