Speaking to reporters in Finland today, General Grachev also said that Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani troops could take the road to Tbilisi under their protection.
As Azerbaijani troops deliberately withdrew from the frontline in support of Surat Huseynov's rebellion, Armenian troops advanced taking over the regions often without a shot.
English tried to interfere between the Armenian and Azerbaijani troops.
On March 7, 2008 Nagorno-Karabakh's Defacto news agency reports a concentration Azerbaijani troops at the contact line where the prior ceasefire violation occurred.
There it clashed with regular Azerbaijani troops, which reinstalled Azerbaijan's control over the city within a month.
In a national address in November 1993, Əliyev stated that 16,000 Azerbaijani troops had died and 22,000 had been injured in nearly six years of fighting.
But the Armenian press agency Armenpress, reporting from Yerevan, said Azerbaijani troops controlled border areas around the territory, ruling out any such attack.
Other towns in the enclave were reported to have been shelled or stormed by Azerbaijani troops.
He said that several times, he saw Azerbaijani troops kill civilians and burn villages, and that once he even heard an Azerbaijani officer give the order.
Even the few thousand people who have returned to villages overrun at the start of the fighting and retaken by Azerbaijani troops have found hope to be a scarce commodity.