Three soldiers have been killed in clashes on Azerbaijan’s border with Armenia

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The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense has stated that an Azerbaijani soldier has died as a result of provocation by the Armenian army and that “the Armenian military and political leadership is fully responsible for the tensions”.

The ministry said Azerbaijani forces had quelled an enemy fire following an incident on the border in the Nagoya district of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia said two Armenian soldiers had also been killed in the clashes, accusing Azerbaijani soldiers of provocation.

Yerevan claimed that Azerbaijan used unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery against Armenian soldiers.

War broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan in September 2020 over a predominantly Armenian population Nagorno-Karabakh disputed region, resulting in the loss of some 6,500 lives.

The war lasted six weeks and ended on 9 November 2020, when Armenia and Azerbaijan Russia support an agreement to cease fire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is considered by many in Armenia to be a capitulation.

Under the agreement, Armenians lost part of Nagorno-Karabakh’s main territory, as well as all areas of the security buffer zone that had been under Armenian control since the 1990s. Among other things, the Kalbajar district was lost.

Nagorno-Karabakh, which was part of the Azerbaijani SSR during the Soviet era, has been a “de facto” independent Republic of Armenia since the early 1990s. Although Azerbaijan has not controlled Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the USSR, it considers the Armenian region to be its territory.

Armenian-backed separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh said this week that Azerbaijani forces had opened fire on a village by destroying a car parked near the school.

Nagorno-Karabakh officials have said Russian peacekeepers in the region are aware of the shooting. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense, for its part, denies that such shootings have taken place.

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