ArmInfo.There is no need to evacuate residents of the border villages of Gegharkunik region, the head of the region, Gnel Sanosyan, said in an interview with reporters on May 27.
According to the Armenian Ministry of Defense, on the morning of May 27, six servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia were surrounded and taken prisoner by the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan while carrying out engineering work in the border zone in the Gegharkunik region of Armenia, in the protected territory of the N military unit. According to the head of the administration of the village of Kut, the servicemen were captured in the direction of this settlement.
"The incident took place near the border, but not on the territory of the settlements," the governor said. A week earlier, the Armenian media reported that the Azerbaijani military had occupied a height on the line of contact in the direction of the village of Kut, Gegharkunik region. The line of contact between the Gegharkunik region of Armenia and Azerbaijan (occupied after the war, the territory of the Shahumyan region of Karabakh, not far from Karvachar) runs along the tops of the mountains.