Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Says Its Positions Came Under Small Arms Fire In Border Area

Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said late on June 20 that its positions in the Heydarabad settlement in the Sadarak area of the Naxcivan exclave had come under small arms fire from Armenia's Vedi region across the border. The ministry claimed in its statement that Armenian armed detachments also fired at Azerbaijani Army positions near Susha in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. It said Azerbaijani units took "adequate" retaliatory measures. Nagorno-Karabakh's de facto defense officials rejected the statement as "disinformation." The report could not be independently verified.