More than 200 people are injured in a gas depot explosion outside the Karabakh capital
“I do think that Russia has shown that it is not a security partner that can be relied on,” Matthew Miller, the spokesman, had told reporters.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast, which happened as residents were lining up to get fuel for their cars in order to leave the region. Washington and some western allies condemned the Azeri hostilities, which have changed the contours of the South Caucasus, a patchwork of ethnicities criss-crossed with oil and gas pipelines where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran vie for influence.
On Monday, senior US officials arrived in Armenia, making the first such visit since the Karabakh Armenians were forced into a ceasefire last week.
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