Azerbaijan denounces Armenian attacks against its positions on the common border

Sep. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense has reported this Sunday that the Armenian Armed Forces have fired at their positions on the common border between the two countries, with no casualties at the moment.

“From the evening of September 3 to the morning of September 4, units of the Armenian Armed Forces fired intermittently from positions on the state border between Azerbaijan and Armenia,” he explained in a statement on Sunday.

Specifically, a previous statement on Saturday specified that the Armenian Armed Forces attacked at least 16 times in the direction of Kalbajar and Lachín, in Nagorno-Karabakh, from their positions in the Basarkechar and Garakilsa regions.

For its part, the Armenian Defense Ministry said on Saturday, in response to Azerbaijan’s first statement, that these alleged attacks are “disinformation.” “The situation on the border is relatively stable. It is under the full control of the Armenian Armed Forces,” he said.

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 nations 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.