Azerbaijan says it conducted revenge operation in response to cross-border fire by Armenia

Published February 13,2024

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Baku early Tuesday mentioned it carried out a “revenge operation” in response to a cross-border hearth by Armenia a day earlier, injuring one Azerbaijani serviceman.

“As a result of the operation, the combat post of the Armenian Armed Forces near the Nerkin-And settlement of Gafan district, where our soldiers were fired upon yesterday (Monday), was completely destroyed, and the combat positions were silenced,” mentioned a press release by Azerbaijan’s State Border Service.

There are stories of significant casualties among the many personnel of the destroyed fight put up, the assertion famous, saying: “Every provocation of the Armenian side aimed at aggravating the operational conditions at the Azerbaijan-Armenia conditional state border will be answered with more serious and decisive measures from now on.”

“The military and political leadership of Armenia is fully responsible for the incident,” it added.

Meanwhile, the Armenian Defense Ministry mentioned two of its servicemen have been killed, based on preliminary info.

Earlier, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry additionally mentioned its army positions within the nation’s northwestern Tovuz district have been fired on by Armenia late Monday.

The cross-border hearth got here as Azerbaijan’s State Border Service mentioned Monday that one in every of its troopers was injured as a result of pictures fired by Armenian forces towards the nation’s southwestern Zangilan district.

Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian army occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan, and 7 adjoining areas.

Azerbaijan liberated a lot of the area in the course of the conflict within the fall of 2020, which ended with a Russian-brokered peace settlement, opening the door to normalization.

The Azerbaijani military initiated an anti-terrorism operation in Karabakh final September to ascertain constitutional order, after which unlawful separatist forces within the area surrendered.