Artsrun Hovhannisyan: Situation relatively calm on the frontline
Spokesman for Armenia’s Ministry of Defense, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, left a message on his Facebook page saying that the situation is relatively calm on the frontline. “The situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is calm at the moment. The enemy has lost seven troops. The Armenian armed forces are in full control of the situation,” he wrote. Three Armenian soldiers were killed on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan, near the village of Chinari in Tavush marz early on Thursday in a firefight while preventing an attempted infiltration by Azerbaijan military units. Lieutenant Shavarsh Melikyan, Privates Edgar Narayan and Erik Abovyan died while repelling an Azerbaijani commando raid on their military post in Tavush marz. Artsrun Hovhannisyan wrote on his Fecbook page that the firefight erupted at around 10:17 a.m. Armenian army units killed at least seven Azerbaijani soldiers during the fighting that continued until noon. The Azerbaijani side was quick to blame the firefight on Armenia instisting that the three Armenian soldiers were killed at the site of their service while the Armenian Ministry of Defense claims to have irrefutable evidence of the Azerbaijani attack.
