TBILISI (Reuters) – Armenia announced on Friday the death of two soldiers in a border clash with Azerbaijan, northwest of the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The two servicemen were killed in a shelling near the town of Sotk, another was injured, the Armenian Defense Ministry said.
Azerbaijan has reported two wounded in its ranks following attacks by Armenian drones in the Kalbajar region. Baku said it was taking retaliatory measures.
Reuters was unable to verify this information.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars, the last in 2020, over Nagorno-Karabakh, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijani territory but populated mainly by Armenians.
Since the end of the 2020 conflict – at the end of which Azerbaijan took over large swaths of territory in Nagorno-Karabakh – tensions have regularly resurfaced between the two Caucasian republics.
(Report Felix Light; French version Mariana Abreu)
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