The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan announced today that Azerbaijani forces hit two missile launch sites in Armenia from which, as it claims, during the conflict, civilian zones in Nagorno-Karabakh were targeted.
The Armenian Defense Ministry confirmed that zones on its territory were hit, but denied that it was targeting Azerbaijan.
Armenia indicated that after the attack it has the right to "target any military facility or equipment on the territory of Azerbaijan".
It is the first time since the resumption of hostilities in the separatist region that Baku has claimed to have targeted Armenian territory.
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense states that its armed forces noticed during the night that missile launch systems ready for action were being placed on Armenian territory, in the zone near the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and destroyed them because their targets were civilian zones in Azerbaijan.
"The attack was carried out under the simple assumption that civilian zones in Azerbaijan will be targeted with the given equipment. Needless to say, these allegations are completely unfounded," said the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.
Azerbaijani troops and separatist forces backed by Yerevan have been fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh since late September.
According to official data, more than 600 people died.
The truce reached under the auspices of Russia was supposed to come into force on Saturday, but it was violated from the beginning, and officials of the two sides are reporting new military and civilian casualties.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an enclave in Azerbaijan inhabited by Armenians, and since the war in the first half of the XNUMXs, the government in Baku has had no control over the territory.
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