Baku / 13.06.19 / Turan: As a result of a shootout on the contact line of troops in Karabakh, an Armenian soldier was killed, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported.
According to the ministry, "on June 13 at 17:05 in the north direction, as a result of a shot from the enemy, Artem Vazgenovich Khachatryan, a soldier of 1999, was fatally wounded."
In recent weeks, there has been an escalation of tensions on the line of contact of troops. On May 30, Azerbaijani soldier Agil Omarov was killed in the Karabakh conflict zone. The Armenian side reported on the death of its soldier Sipan Melkonyan on June 1. On 9 June, Khalilov Elshan Vugar Oglu, a soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, was killed by the enemy firing in the direction of the Terter front area.
Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan defiantly called the murder of the Azerbaijani military "punitive operation" and awarded its participants.
On June 12, the Armenian military unsuccessfully attacked the aircraft of the Azerbaijani Air Force carrying out scheduled training flights. -06D--
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