BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 15. Armenian Armed Forces opened fire from their positions with firearms of various calibers at the servicemen of the State Border Service of Azerbaijan at the border checkpoint in the Lachin district on June 15, at about 08:00 (GMT +4), the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan told Trend.
As a result, a serviceman of the State Border Service, ensign Elshan Rustamov received bullet wounds.
Employees of the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Criminalistics Department and the Gubadli Military Prosecutor's Office are conducting an inspection of the scene and other necessary investigative actions.
The Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case on the fact under Articles 29,120.2.1, 29,120.2.3, 29,120.2.4 and 29,120.2.11, 29,120.2.12 (terror attack with an attempted murder by a group of persons in a generally dangerous way of a person in the performance of official duty due to ethnic hatred), 214.2.1. 214.2.3 and 214.2.4 (terrorism with the use of firearms, causing grave consequences and committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy), a preliminary investigation is carried out.
Rustamov was hospitalized, his condition is currently stable.
Detailed information about the details of the incident will be provided after the inspection of the scene and other investigative actions.
In order to prevent the transportation of manpower, ammunition, mines, as well as other military equipment from Armenia for illegal Armenian armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan (which weren't withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders following the 2020 Second Karabakh War), and as an adequate response to the unilateral establishment of a checkpoint by Armenia on the border with Azerbaijan on April 22 at the entrance to the Lachin-Khankendi road contrary to the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, on April 23 at 12:00 (GMT+4), the units of the State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan set up a border checkpoint in its sovereign territories, on the border with Armenia, at the beginning of the Lachin-Khankendi road.