Armenia Will 'Neutralize Azerbaijani Snipers Through Military Measures:' Defense Ministry

Armenia’s Defense Ministry has issued a statement over the killing of an Armenian soldier by an Azerbaijani sniper late on Thursday.

“The Defense Ministry of the Republic of Armenia strongly condemns Azerbaijan’s adventures to exacerbate the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line by the use of snipers,” reads the statement.

It comes after Vitaly Ashot Igityan, 22, a temporary soldier at the military unit N38401, was around 7 p.m. on 14 October killed by an Azerbaijani sniper at an outpost deployed in the south-eastern part of the contact line between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.  Read more... (233 words)

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