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Four Azerbaijani soldiers died in an artillery fire near the Tavush region on Sunday, the country’s defense ministry said. She recorded three deaths on Sunday and another on Monday.
At that time, the Armenian Defense Ministry said that Azerbaijani troops began to bombard enemy positions again after nightly clashes on Monday morning.
The parties exchanged accusations about who started the fight.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a cabinet meeting that “provocations by Azerbaijanis would not go unanswered.”
His appointed defense minister, David Tonoyan, meanwhile, warned that Yerevan “would respond to Azerbaijan’s actions, including taking favorable positions” on its territory.
According to the minister, the Armenian forces “do not fire on civilian targets in Azerbaijan and only apply to the engineering infrastructure and technical equipment of the Azerbaijani armed forces.”
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohraba Mnacakanian discussed the crisis over the phone with the head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military bloc led by Moscow.
At the time, the office of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that Yerevan was trying to involve the CSTO in the conflict in its “military adventure”.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, issued a statement expressing its support for its ally Baku.
“Turkey will continue to do everything possible to support Azerbaijan’s efforts to protect its territorial integrity,” the ministry said.
The war between the two countries could also involve regional powers, including Yerevan’s military ally Russia, and Azerbaijan’s boss Turkey. Moscow and Ankara are vying for geopolitical influence in that strategically important region.
The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades, a disputed territory at the center of a bloody war in the 1990s.
The latest fighting has broken out far from Nagorno-Karabakh and is taking place directly between the two Caucasus states, which is rare.
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