Alwaght- The Azerbaijani army’s positions have come under fire from Armenia, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
"The Armenian Armed Forces stationed near the Arazdeyen settlement in the Develi District fired small arms towards Azerbaijani positions near the Heydarabad settlement in the Sadarak Region of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic at 9:40 p.m. (5:40 p.m. GMT) on February 24," the statement reads.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Friday and Saturday that the country’s armed forces had come under fire on the border with Armenia in the Kalbajar District. On February 12, Azerbaijan’s State Border Service said that an Azerbaijani border guard had suffered wounds in a shelling attack launched from Armenia. On February 13, the service announced that an Armenian combat post had been destroyed in "a revenge operation" carried out in response to the attack. In turn, Yerevan said that four of its soldiers had been killed.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions, including Kalbajar.
Azerbaijan took back most of the region during the war in the fall of 2020, which ended with a Russian-brokered peace agreement, opening the door to normalization.
Tensions on the Azerbaijan-Armenia border reignited when Baku said one of its soldiers was injured due to shots fired by Armenian forces toward the country's southwestern Zangilan district on Feb.12.
