YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Armenia accused Azerbaijan on April 6 of stepping up ceasefire violations along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border overnight following Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s talks with top US and European Union officials.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said Azerbaijani forces opened fire at its positions at multiple sections of the border. It reported an “active movement” of Azerbaijani military vehicles in one of those areas.
“It is noteworthy that during the night most of the gunshots fired by the Azerbaijani armed forces were non-targeted and sporadic,” the ministry said in a statement.
The statement suggested that they tried to provoke the Armenian side to take “countermeasures” that could be used for substantiating the “recent Azerbaijani disinformation” about Armenian truce violations. Armenian troops “did not take actions contributing to further escalation,” it said.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry condemned Azerbaijan’s “provocative actions.” It insisted that Armenia is “not interested in the escalation of the situation in the region.”
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said, meanwhile, that its border troops came under cross-border Armenian fire on Friday night. It did not specify those locations.
