Due to the escalation in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, numerous airlines are suspending their offers to Armenia and Azerbaijan or postponing admission, like Ukraine International.

The Ukrainian carrier announced that it will not fly to Baku until the end of October at the earliest. But behind this is also that Azerbaijan issued a NOTAM on Wednesday and for safety reasons prohibited all take-offs, landings and overflights. How long this measure will last cannot be foreseen due to the extremely tense situation with regard to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been arguing for many years about the affiliation of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians, but belongs to Azerbaijan under international law. While the conflict has lingered in recent years, military clashes have flared up in the last few days. The fighters also have allies: Armenia has the Russian Federation as a protecting power, which recently demanded the immediate withdrawal of troops and the cessation of fighting. Behind Azerbaijan stands Turkey, which is also anything but happy about the flare-up of the conflict. Both parties to the dispute blame each other for the buck and accuse each other of using “foreign mercenaries”.