Armenia denounces the death of a soldier by shots from Azerbaijan on the common border

Azerbaijan installs a “border post” in the Lachin corridor, which connects Armenia with the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabagh

23 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Government of Armenia has denounced this Sunday the death of a soldier in an attack attributed to the Army of Azerbaijan against a position located near the town of Sotk (east), a day after Baku denounced that three soldiers had been injured by the mine explosion in Shusha.

“On April 23 at around 11:50 a.m. (local time), a soldier (…) was fatally wounded by enemy fire at an Armenian combat position in Sotk,” the Armenian Ministry of Defense has indicated through of a statement published on its website, in which it has conveyed its condolences to the family of the deceased.

The event took place after Baku denounced on Saturday that at least three soldiers had been injured by the explosion of a mine allegedly placed by Armenian forces as a military truck carrying supplies passed by in the Shusha district.

Azerbaijan recovered the city of Shusha in 2020, taken by Armenia in the First Nagorno Karabakh War in 1994. Both countries have maintained various contacts to try to sign a peace agreement, although the talks have encountered various obstacles, including the situation in around the Lachin corridor, which connects Armenia with the self-proclaimed republic of Arstakh.

On the other hand, the Azeri Border Guard has announced during the day the installation of a “border post” in the aforementioned corridor – where there are Russian military deployed as peacekeepers under the 2020 ceasefire agreement – in response to the “transportation of personnel, ammunition, mines and other military equipment from Armenia to illegal Armenian armed groups in Azerbaijan”, accusations rejected by Yerevan.