BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 16. At the Lachin border checkpoint on the Khakari Bridge, fire was opened on Azerbaijani border guard servicemen while they were raising the Azerbaijani flag on their sovereign territory yesterday, Trend reports via the tweet of Press Secretary of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Aykhan Hajizade.
"Azerbaijan has recently built this bridge. Armenia's statement that the Azerbaijani flag was raised on their territory is unfounded," Aykhan Hajizade said.
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other military equipment from Armenia for illegal Armenian armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan (which weren't withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders following the 2020 Second Karabakh War), and as an adequate response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.