ANKARA
Armenian forces periodically opened fire on several positions of Azerbaijan’s army, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Mortars and artillery fire fell in the border districts of Kalbajar and Lachin last night and this morning, the ministry said in a statement.
Azerbaijan has taken “appropriate” retaliatory measures, he added.
There were no casualties and no reports were reported.
Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of “large-scale provocations” in recent days, which have left both sides dead, adding 50 Azerbaijanis and 49 Armenians, according to official accounts of the latest outbreak.
In Monday’s attacks across Armenia, two farmers were wounded, one more in critical condition, according to a joint statement from Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry and the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Relations between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian army occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory identified worldwide as part of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan liberated several cities and more than three hundred settlements and villages in 2020 that were occupied through Armenia. The fighting ended with a settlement brokered by Russia.