Karabakh border skirmish leaves two Armenian soldiers dead: Yerevan
At least two Armenian soldiers have been killed after a border clash erupted between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan says.
Speaking at a news briefing in the capital, Yerevan, on Friday, Armenia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, stated that Azeri forces opened fire on Armenian army positions in Tavush region of northeastern Armenia late on Thursday.
Hovhannisyan identified the victims as Lieutenant Karen A. Galstyan and Private Artak V. Sargsyan.
On Wednesday, two Armenian troopers were killed in separate exchanges of fire between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Multiple confrontations between Baku and Yerevan over Nagorno-Karabakh left dozens of troops dead on both sides last year.
The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave, which accounts for 16 percent of the Azerbaijan territory, in the early 1990s during a six-year war which lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace accord has never been inked and the dispute still remains unsettled.
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