ArmInfo.The Armenian Defense Ministry reacted to Azerbaijan's accusations of committing a provocation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border. Thus, in the statement of the RA Ministry of Defense, in particular, it is noted: "One needs to have an extremely vivid imagination to ascribe" accusations "of shelling the positions of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, a strategic ally of the Armenian Armed Forces.
It is more than obvious that the Azerbaijani side is making a desperate attempt to shift the blame for yesterday's violation of the ceasefire by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces (shelling of some settlements of Artsakh) on the Armenian side.
Nevertheless, both the Armed Forces of Armenia and Artsakh are committed to the trilateral agreement on the observance of the ceasefire regime and call on the Azerbaijani military-political leadership to do the same.
It should be noted that today, after a number of reports about the shelling of Armenian and Karabakh villages by Azerbaijanis, the State Border Service of Azerbaijan in a hurry issued a statement, reporting on alleged provocations by the Armenian Armed Forces on the state border.
"In the evening of the same day, the units of the State Border Service located in the village of Seidlyar of the Zangilan region on the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border, as well as the positions of the units of the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, serving in this direction from the Armenian side, were fired upon by Armenian servicemen," - the message says, adding that the drunken Armenian soldiers allegedly committed a provocation.
In conclusion, the State Border Service of Azerbaijan threatened to take the most decisive retaliatory measures if such provocations are repeated in the future.