“Battles” are taking place at some points along the border and “the enemy has not stopped trying to advance,” the Armenian defense minister said in a statement.
Clashes are raging today Tuesday at the border between in Armenia and Azerbaijanas Baku forces, backed by artillery and drones, seek to “push” into Armenian territory, Yerevan said.
“Battles” are taking place at some points along the border and “the enemy has not stopped trying to advance,” the Armenian defense minister said in a statement.
“Azeri forces continue to use artillery, mortars, drones and heavy-caliber rifles,” he added, accusing Baku of targeting “military and civilian infrastructure.”
These new large-scale conflicts broke out during last night both camps blame each other.
Azerbaijan accused Armenia overnight of “subversive actions on a large scale”, adding that Armenian fire had caused “casualties” in its ranks.
Armenia, for its part, accused Azerbaijan of starting “intensive shelling” of its positions shortly after midnight in the direction of towns such as Goris and Sotk.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan denounced an “attack” and overnight held separate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to ask them to react.
During these talks, Pashinyan stated that he hopes for “an appropriate response from the international community”, according to announcements by the Armenian government.
Frequent exchanges of fire have occurred along the two countries’ shared border since the end of the 2020 war between Yerevan and Baku over control of the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Last week, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of killing one of its soldiers during border clashes.
In August, Baku said it had lost a soldier and the army of Nagorno Karabakh announced that two of his soldiers had been killed and at least 12 wounded.
The two neighboring countries fought each other twice – in the 1990s and 2020 – over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an Azeri enclave inhabited mainly by Armenians.
Six weeks of fighting in the fall of 2020 claimed the lives of more than 6,500 people and culminated in a Russian-brokered ceasefire.
As part of that deal, Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had controlled for decades, and Moscow deployed some 2,000 Russian peacekeepers to oversee the fragile truce.
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