Both nations have recently fought over territory deemed strategically important to both Russia and Iran.
Azerbaijani military forces started combat with Armenia on Tuesday, according to the Armenian Ministry of Defense.
Both nations have had animosity towards one another after years of war and rising tensions, most notably resulting in a six-week war in 2020 over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory—a disputed region fought for between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces dating back decades.account OSINT Defender said on Tuesday that"heavy fighting" between both countries' militaries started north of the Village of Tegh, near the Lachin Corridor in Eastern Armenia.
An Azerbaijani soldier fixes a national flag on a lamp post in the town of Lachin, on December 1, 2020. New fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces was reported on April 11, 2023, though Armenia claimed fighting died down after a few hours.Hours later, at around 5:30 p.m. local time, the ministry reported that Azerbaijani forces"continue the provocation" and allegedly used mortars.
The ministry said in a statement that"Armenian armed forces units from the positions in the direction of the Digh settlement of the Gorus region using small arms subjected to intensive fire the Azerbaijan Army's opposing positions stationed in the direction of the Lachin region." It added that"Azerbaijan Army Units took adequate retaliatory measures.
As of 7 p.m. local time, the Armenian MOD said that"the intensity of the firefight has significantly weakened" and that rumors of alleged shelling in the direction of Vardenis, a town in Armenia,"do not correspond to reality."Elchin Amirbayov, the assistant to the first vice-president of Azerbaijan, wrote in a
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