Azerbaijan on Tuesday unilaterally closed airspace over neighboring Armenia after its troops launched what the country's defense ministry described as “anti-terrorist” operations in the disputed Nagono-Karabakh region, which borders the two countries. Dyami Security Intelligence confirmed that Azeri forces have begun to shell Armenian forces and that it received reports of the use of surface-to-air missiles.
As of early afternoon Central European Time, any indication of the airspace closure had yet to appear in EASA’s Conflict Zone Information Bulletin, which is intended to warn aircraft operators about such dangers, especially in the wake of the destruction of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 by missiles over Ukrainian territory in July 2014. Some operators have noted that the EASA platform was also slow to confirm airspace threats in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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