An Azeri soldier and an Armenian fighter were killed today near Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-backed separatist enclave in a region that remains volatile after a war in late 2020, authorities on both sides said.
This morning, “intense fire” targeted Azerbaijani army positions in the Lachin region, a buffer zone between the Armenian border and Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said in a statement.
A member of the Azeri armed forces was killed by fire from “illegal Armenian military formations,” the ministry added.
The Armenian separatists of Nagorno-Karabakh, for their part, reported the death of one of their soldiers in an attack carried out by an Azerbaijani drone in the afternoon.
Eight Armenian separatist fighters were also wounded, the separatist army said in a statement.
After a first war that killed more than 30,000 people in the early 1990s, Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed again in the fall of 2020 over control of Nagorno-Karabakh.
More than 6,500 people were killed in this new war which Armenia lost. As part of a Moscow-brokered ceasefire agreement that deployed peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan ceded a significant amount of territory.
Despite a tentative diplomatic détente between Armenia and Azerbaijan, armed incidents frequently occur in the region or along the official border between the two countries.
Source: AMPE
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