The maps show another 92,000 hidden anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the former front-line Fizuli and Zangelan districts. Armenia occupied those districts and all or parts of seven others of Azerbaijan for 25-30 years.

Ukraine’s renewables sector is in chaos, marred by unrealistic promises, setbacks caused by the COVID pandemic - and spiralling debt that has left Kyiv on the hook to foreign green energy producers at a tab of close to $1 billion.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Antalya, Turkey, that the two major powers had a common position.

The expulsion of the EU representative was linked to an order barring entry to EU diplomats deemed by Minsk as having a hand in drafting sanctions against Belarus - including the suspension of potash exports from Belarus, the key component of fertilisers.

Both leaders welcomed heightened ties with the EU. Baku said it invited the bloc to help with the post-war reconstruction of Azerbaijani lands looted and systematically destroyed during the Armenian occupation.

Lukashenko, defiant, vowed the "bastards on the other side of the border” would not succeed.