Sep. 13 () –
The Armenian Ministry of Defense has accused the Azerbaijani Armed Forces this Tuesday morning of having launched an attack on Armenian positions with artillery and large-caliber weapons in the direction of several cities located on the common border.
“On September 13, at 00:05 (local time), units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have started firing intensively (…) in the direction of Goris, Sotk and Jermuk,” the Armenian Ministry of Defense said. it’s a statement.
Likewise, the Government of Armenia has detailed that “positional battles” are taking place at some points along the border, and that “the enemy” does not stop the attempts to advance, while at the same time accusing its neighbor of responsibility for everything what happened.
Azerbaijan, for its part, has described the news about Azerbaijani intervention in Armenian territory as “nothing but nonsense”.
“The only aggressor and occupying state in the region is the Republic of Armenia. The presence of personnel and equipment of the Armenian Armed Forces in the Karabakh economic zone in Azerbaijan still continues,” the Azerbaijani Ministry said in a statement.
The Azerbaijani authorities have maintained that Armenia’s “current policy” of “military adventurism and revenge” against the Azerbaijani Army, as well as Armenia’s “provocations” over the past month have caused “an escalation of the situation” on Tuesday.
“In response to the large-scale provocation of Armenia, the Azerbaijani Army implements local countermeasures and firing points are neutralized,” the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry added, announcing an alleged counteroffensive against its neighbor.
Armenia and Azerbaijan staged a confrontation in 2020 to take control of Nagorno Karabakh, a territory with a majority Armenian population that has been a focus of conflict since it decided to separate in 1988 from the Azerbaijan region integrated into the Soviet Union.
Hostilities between the two countries lasted for six weeks and left thousands dead. They finally ceased when the two countries reached a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement, allowing Russian peacekeepers to settle in Nagorno-Karabakh for a period of five years.
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