Azerbaijan: Satellite Imagery Shows Environmental Damage of Reported White Phosphorus Use in Nagorno Karabakh

Nov 12, 2020 | Digital Forensic Research Lab
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The Second Karabakh War is now over with a Russia-brokered ceasefire deal. But as the fog of war lifts and both sides assess the full extent of the damage, emerging open-source satellite imagery from the last week of fighting shows the environmental destruction resulting from Azerbaijan’s reported use of white phosphorus munitions on forests in Nagorno-Karabakh.