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Azerbaijani troops killed an Armenian soldier on Friday during clashes taking place on the border between the two Caucasus countries for a second day in a row, in an outbreak of tension that threatens talks planned this weekend in Brussels.
On Friday morning, "the armed forces of Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire in Sotk (an Armenian border town), using drones," the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
According to the ministry, one Armenian soldier was killed and two more wounded. "The intensity of the clashes was reduced," he said hours later.
On Thursday, an Azeri soldier was killed and four Armenian soldiers wounded in clashes between the countries, which have been fighting for three decades in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an enclave populated mostly by Armenians but inside the territory of Azerbaijan.
The two former Soviet republics fought two wars, one in the early 1990s and another in 2020, over control of this mountainous area.
Friday's clashes come just hours before Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meets Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels on Sunday. The talks were hosted by the European Union.
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