Baku said that after Armenian forces opened fire on the common border, Azerbaijani soldiers were injured in the Nakhchivan enclave.

Azerbaijan stated that after Armenian forces opened fire along the common border, one of its soldiers was injured. Armenia denies this accusation.

Friday’s statement marked the latest in a series of incidents between two former Soviet rivals.

The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan stated in a statement that Armenian forces opened fire in multiple directions from its Nakhchivan position.

It said the soldier was injured in his shoulder, received first aid and was taken to the hospital.

Russia’s TASS news agency reported that the Armenian Ministry of Defense denied Baku’s claims.

After a six-week war on the Nagorno-Karabakh region last year, the border dispute has just begun.

The region and even Armenia are recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but the region is densely populated and until recently was controlled by Armenians.

The so-called clash on Friday took place the day after Azerbaijan captured six Armenian soldiers in the Kerbahar region west of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia stated that its troops are carrying out engineering work in the area, while Azerbaijan stated that these soldiers are part of a “reconnaissance and sabotage organization.”

Earlier this month, Armenia accused the Azerbaijani military of “siege” a lake shared by the two countries across its southern border, and tensions escalated.

Armenia said earlier this week that one of its soldiers had been killed after a shooting incident with Azerbaijani troops. Baku denied responsibility for the incident.

Pashinyan is in a political crisis

Last year’s conflict ended in November, and the Azerbaijani army expelled ethnic Armenians from the territory controlled in and around Nagorno-Karabakh since the 1990s.

Russia eventually led to a ceasefire.

The conflict caused more than 6,000 deaths on both sides and led to a political crisis in Armenia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was widely criticized in the country and regarded as a humiliating failure.

Pashinyan, 45, said he has no choice but to give in or see his country’s troops suffer greater losses.

After the crisis, he announced a quick parliamentary poll under pressure from opposition demonstrators.

The election is scheduled for June 20.

On Thursday, Passingyan called the border situation “tension and explosive.”

Earlier this month, he said that Armenia and Azerbaijan are negotiating on the delimitation and delimitation of the common border in Russian mediation??.

He also said that the two governments can discuss the exchange of territories between the two countries.

Russia’s role as an intermediary between the two countries is largely at the expense of Western powers such as France and the United States.

All three are part of a mediation team that tried but failed to find a lasting solution to the decades-long dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

Armenia fought a war with Azerbaijan in the region in the 1990s, killing at least 30,000 people.