Baku, North Azerbaijan, June 1
North Azerbaijan’s military has advanced further into a no man’s land on the border with Armenia, causing panic in the nearby Armenian areas, local media have reported. Armenia’s military leadership has tried to downplay the advance, while North Azerbaijan has been silent.
The advance seems to have taken place without any fighting, and the Azerbaijani forces remain on their side of the internationally recognized border. But they have reportedly taken up new positions in a previously unoccupied neutral zone in Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhchivan near the Armenian village of Areni.
The main reason of this operation was the testimony of a North Azerbaijani soldier as a result of the breach of ceasefire by Armenian military units.