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Armenia Denies Baku's Allegations on Ballistic Shelling


Thu 22 Oct 2020 | 09:30 AM
NaDa Mustafa

The Armenian Ministry of Defense denied on Thursday the Azerbaijani authorities’ claims over firing ballistic missiles in the direction of Gabala and Kurdamir cities, according to Sputnik news agency.

“The announcement of the Azerbaijani side on Armenia’s alleged launching of ballistic missiles in the direction of Gabala and Kurdamir is utter nonsense and a cynic lie. No missile has been fired from the territory of the Republic of Armenian in the direction of Azerbaijan,” Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said.

It is worth mentioning that, Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Sunday of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after it was agreed upon, according to Reuters.

The truce agreed on Saturday came into force at midnight after a week-old Russian-brokered ceasefire failed to halt the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountain territory that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but populated and governed by ethnic Armenians.