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“Unfortunately, I have to report that Major General Polad Hesimov and Colonel Ilgar Mirzeyev were killed in the fighting,” Veliyev said at a press conference.
The vice minister added that the fighting on the border continues.
The city’s mayor announced the start.
The Azerbaijani army began firing at the northeastern city of Berd on Tuesday, its mayor, Arutun Manucharian said.
“The city is being shot,” the mayor told local media.
The Armenian Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Interfax news agency that they would issue a statement about the incident in the near future.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported that Armenian forces had fired at border settlements across the border.
On Sunday, Baku and Yerevan accused each other of violating the ceasefire regime and using artillery.
Azerbaijan claimed that the artillery of the Armenian forces fired at Azerbaijani positions along the border between the two countries in the Tovuz district.
At the time, Shushan Stepanian, a spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry, told Interfax that on Sunday the Azerbaijani army attempted to cross the border in a UAZ SUV and then used artillery fire to occupy an Armenian base. The Armenian side did not kill anyone during the incident, the spokeswoman said.
Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said in a statement that three Azerbaijani soldiers had been killed and four others wounded in a clash on the border with Armenia. The death of another Azerbaijani officer during the shooting was reported Monday morning.
On Monday, the defense ministries of both countries reported several scattered shootings across the border.
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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