Two dead, several injured
Armenia and Azerbaijan report shelling
February 13, 2024, 10:51 a.m
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After Baku’s lightning conquest of the Nagorno-Karabakh region in September, there is initially calm. Now there is another exchange of fire on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. With apparently fatal consequences.
After weeks of relative calm, new armed clashes have broken out on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Both sides accused each other of firing shots. According to the Defense Ministry, two Armenian soldiers were killed and several others injured in Yerevan in the south of the country.
The Defense Ministry in Baku said that Armenian troops attacked a village in northeastern Azerbaijan on Monday evening. The neighboring Caucasus republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been enemies for decades, particularly because of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which belongs to Azerbaijan under international law. Azerbaijan brought Nagorno-Karabakh under its complete control in a large-scale military offensive in September last year.
As a result, almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians, including more than 100,000 people, fled to Armenia. In December, the two countries exchanged prisoners of war and negotiations for a peace agreement are currently underway. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had originally promised to sign a peace treaty by the end of 2023. However, there has so far been no breakthrough in the talks under international mediation.