Reports of the fighting on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian forces on the border of Armenia and Nakhchivan are untrue, according to comments on this topic in social networks. In particular, users of the network, with reference to the local population informed about the fighting on the border Sadarak, and Shahbuz Julfa district of Nakhchivan. The same sources claimed that Armenians seized the Lakatag height and hold it.
In turn, the press service of the Defense Ministry said that the situation at the Nakhchivan direction is stable and is under control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. At the same time, local residents reported Turan correspondent, that intense gunfire was heard in the area of height Lyakyatag last night and early this morning. "Shooting from machine guns lasted more than two hours," said one of the locals. Note that the report of the Ministry of Defense writes nothing about skirmishes on the front line. -03B-
Politics
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