YEREVAN — The Armenian military accused Azerbaijani forces of again opening fire on Monday evening at its positions along a section of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan where deadly fighting was reported last week.

The Defense Ministry in Yerevan said its troops deployed outside the village of Yeraskh bordering Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave came under heavy gunfire after two days of relative calm. It said no Armenian soldiers were killed or wounded in the resulting “intensive shootout.”

A ministry statement warned that continued Azerbaijani truce violations would meet with a “tough reaction” from the Armenian side. “Azerbaijan’s military-political leadership bears full responsibility for the escalation of the situation,” it said.

Both sides reported last week fighting in the area about 70 kilometers south of Yerevan. One Armenian soldier was killed there on Wednesday as a result of an Azerbaijani attempt to move closer to an Armenian border post.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Baku on Saturday of planning to provoke “new military clashes in Karabakh and along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.” He pointed to the armed incidents at the Yeraskh-Nakhichevan border section.

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  1. Russia and the CSTO are again not living up to their defense commitments to Armenia.

    This is yet another betrayal by Putin of not just Armenia, but of Russian interests too.

    Putin is letting the Turks take over.

    Russians themselves are probably too blind to see this, or are afraid of speaking up lest Putin take revenge on them.

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