> Although Baku apparently stopped alleging Armenian ceasefire violations at the weekend, residents of two villages in the southeastern Syunik province, Khoznavar and Khnatsakh, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service that there has been intense automatic gunfire from nearby Azerbaijani army positions in recent days.
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> “There has been continuous shooting for the last five nights,” said Manushak Soghomonian, a Khnatsakh resident. “They start at 10:20 p.m. [and keep shooting] until 5:30 a.m. Red [tracer] bullets are flying over the village. The people are scared.”
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> Speaking to journalists on March 21, Defense Minister Suren Papikian did not explicitly deny reports that Armenian army units deployed outside another border village came under intense cross-border fire overnight. Papikian insisted that there are no clear indications yet of an imminent Azerbaijani invasion of Armenia.
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> Although Baku apparently stopped alleging Armenian ceasefire violations at the weekend, residents of two villages in the southeastern Syunik province, Khoznavar and Khnatsakh, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service that there has been intense automatic gunfire from nearby Azerbaijani army positions in recent days.
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> “There has been continuous shooting for the last five nights,” said Manushak Soghomonian, a Khnatsakh resident. “They start at 10:20 p.m. [and keep shooting] until 5:30 a.m. Red [tracer] bullets are flying over the village. The people are scared.”
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> Speaking to journalists on March 21, Defense Minister Suren Papikian did not explicitly deny reports that Armenian army units deployed outside another border village came under intense cross-border fire overnight. Papikian insisted that there are no clear indications yet of an imminent Azerbaijani invasion of Armenia.