The Azerbaijani army said that it launched an operation dubbed “Revenge” in response to “the illegal terrorist movements of the Armenian armed groups in the territory of Azerbaijan.”
In a renewed tension between the two sides, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense said, in a statement, that “heavy fire, on Wednesday morning, targeted the Azerbaijani army’s positions in the Lachin region, which is a buffer zone between the Armenian borders and Nagorno-Karabakh.”
The statement added that an Azerbaijani conscript was killed by fire from “illegal Armenian military formations,” as he put it.
Meanwhile, the Armenian side announced the killing of one of its soldiers, and the injury of eight others, in an attack carried out by an Azerbaijani drone this afternoon.
In November 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement, ending a six-week war between the two former Soviet republics for control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The conflict left more than 6,500 people dead, and ended with a severe defeat for Armenia, which was forced to cede to Azerbaijan large swathes of territory it had controlled since the 1990s.
The mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mainly by Armenians, declared its separation from Azerbaijan following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which led to the outbreak of the first war in the 1990s that killed 30,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
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