Azerbaijani Defense Ministry on Friday said that Armenian forces had fired at Azerbaijani military positions in Karabakh.
“On March 24, in the evening, the positions of the Azerbaijan Army stationed on the Azerbaijani-Armenian conditional border and in the Karabakh economic region were subjected to fire several times,” the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry noted that the Armenian armed forces units from combat positions stationed in the various directions of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conditional border using various caliber weapons subjected to fire the opposing positions of the Azerbaijan Army. “Moreover, members of illegal Armenian armed detachment in the territory of Azerbaijan, where the Russian peacekeeping forces are temporarily deployed, subjected to fire the Azerbaijan Army positions stationed in the direction of the Khojavand region.”
“The Azerbaijan Army Units took adequate retaliatory measures,” the ministry added. (ILKHA)
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