An Armenian soldier. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia https://mil.am/hy/news/10408

07 March 2022, 23:56

Armenia reports about death of a soldier near border with Azerbaijan

Contract soldier Grach Manasaryan was killed, and another Armenian soldier was wounded during a shelling attack from the direction of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that today, the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan has announced that the positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled from the territory controlled by the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh and from the direction of Armenia. The Azerbaijani armed forces opened return fire. Baku’s statement about the shelling attack is not true, the Ministry of Defence of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

According to the press service for the Armenian MoD, the incident has happened this afternoon. Two soldiers were injured. Sergeant Grach Manasaryan died on the way to hospital, and there is no threat to the life of the second injured soldier.

The MoD of Armenia also denied the violation of the ceasefire regime by the Armenian armed forces.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 7, 2022 at 02:42 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Tigran Petrosyan Source: CK correspondent

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