The Azerbaijani army admitted losses in its ranks, without giving a figure.
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This is a war far from over. Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday (September 13th) reported large-scale border clashes that left Azerbaijani troops dead in the latest outbreak of violence between the two enemy countries. Frequent shootings have been reported along their shared border since the end of the 2020 war between Yerevan and Baku over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“On Tuesday at 00:05 (22:00 Paris time), Azerbaijan launched an intensive bombardment, with artillery and large-caliber firearms, against Armenian military positions in the direction of the cities of Goris, Sotk and Jermuk”, the Armenian Defense Ministry said. He said in a statement that Azerbaijan also used drones.
For its part, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense accused Armenia of“large-scale subversive acts” near Dashkesan, Kelbajar and Lachin districts on the border, adding that the positions of his army “came under fire, particularly from trench mortars”. “There are casualties among the (Azerbaijani) military”he reported, without giving numbers.
The United States who said to themselves “extremely worried” regarding these reported attacks, urged Monday for an immediate cessation of fighting. Last week, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of killing one of its soldiers in a border shootout. In August, Baku said it lost one soldier, and the Karabakh army said two of its soldiers were killed and more than a dozen injured. The neighbors fought two wars – in the 1990s and in 2020 – in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani enclave populated by Armenians.