Azerbaijan on May 28 said that one of its soldiers was wounded in Armenian attack at army positions in Nakhchivan exclave amid ongoing tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
The Defence Ministry reported in its website that Armenian forces opened fire from several directions at Azerbaijani positions in Ashaghi Buzgov settlement in Nakhchivan’s Babak settlement. The incident occurred on the night leading to May 28. The injured soldier Elkhan Muradov was given first aid and taken to hospital. The ministry said that Armenian attack was suppressed in response fire and the Azerbaijani Army was in control of the operational situation in the area. Furthermore, the ministry urged Yerevan to refrain from further steps that would escalate the situation, stressing that Armenia carries full responsibility for the relative tension on the Nakhchivan part of the state border.
It should be noted that the border incident occurred a day after Azerbaijan detained six Armenian saboteurs who sought to plant mines on the Azerbaijani side of the border near Kalbajar.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on May 27 called on Yerevan to agstain from actions aimed at increasing tensions on the border between the two countries and respect the neighboring state’s border. On May 27, the Defence Ministry reported the death of a solider in a non-combat situation on the border with Armenia. The ministry also revealed that another serviceman was injured as a military truck belonging to the Azerbaijani Army exploded on a mine in Ashaghi Ayrim village near Kalbajar district on May 24.
The tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan escalated in May amid elimination of the state border. 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.
