Azerbaijan has downed an Armenian unmanned areal vehicle (UAV), the Defence Ministry’s press service reported on May 31.
The Griffon 12 UAV belonging to Armenian forces were downed over Kalbajar region on the state border with Armenia. The situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border has been tens since May. Azerbaijan on May 27 detained six Armenian saboteurs who sought to infiltrate into Azerbaijan and plant mines on the supply routes leading to the Azerbaijani Army near Kalbajar. Earlier, on May 24, a military truck belonging to the Azerbaijani Army exploded on a mine near Kalbajar, leaving one serviceman injured.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have failed to come to an agreement on the demarcation of their state border following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The tension over border delineation gained a fresh momentum following the end of the Second Karabakh War in 2020.
