Armenia denounces firing by Azeri soldiers against Armenian Army posts

MADRID, 21 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia denounced this Wednesday that a group of Azeri soldiers have opened fire on some posts of the Armenian Army in the town of Sotk.

"On September 20, at around 22:50 local time, units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired small arms at Armenian combat outposts near Sotk (Gegharkunik province)," the ministry said on its account. of the social network X, formerly Twitter.

These shots occurred just a few hours after Azerbaijan and the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh agreed to a truce within the framework of the military offensive launched by Baku on Tuesday, and despite the fact that Yerevan refused to get involved in the conflict.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have exchanged accusations in recent months of violating the 2020 ceasefire, which ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, after which it took place between 1988 and 1994. The conflict ended with victory for Azerbaijan, which recovered territories taken by Armenia in the first war, including the city of Shusha.

Since then, both countries have maintained various contacts to try to sign a peace agreement, although the talks have encountered obstacles, including the situation around the Lachin corridor, which connects Armenia with the self-proclaimed republic of Arstaj. The area has the presence of Russian soldiers deployed as peacekeepers under the aforementioned ceasefire agreement.