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By Laman Sadigova

Yerevan has once again disseminated false information about the situation on the frontline, claiming that Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled civilians.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has refused the reports, saying that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have never shelled civilians, civil facilities and cars by respecting the norms and principles of international humanitarian law.

The ministry assessed the reports as absurd, noting that this information is absolutely groundless and aims to charge Azerbaijan and conceal another sabotage of Armenians on the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border.

In the early morning, the Defense Ministry reported about the provocation of the Armenian side on the state border with Azerbaijan. Three members of Armenian diversionary group were killed as a result of the operational activities undertaken by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

Azerbaijani servicemen Mirzayev Imran Khudaverdi was killed in the fire opened from the Armenian side.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.

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