Preferred“We express our deep regret over the incident. A particularly regrettable fact is that people were killed in the incident,” Spokesman for the RF Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko told NEWS.am.
He noted that Russia will give a comprehensive assessment of the incident within a day. “The incident is a serious one, I have seen the statement of Mr. Nalbadian but I do not have details yet,” he said.
On June 18, at 11:30 p.m. an Azerbaijani reconnaissance detachment intruded into Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan, an NKR Defense Army operational report says. The trespasser Azerbaijanis could intrude into the north-eastern section of the NKR-Azerbaijani contact line, killing 4 Armenian soldiers and wounding 4 others, the NKR Defense Army press service reports. The enemy retreated, leaving one soldier killed and ammunition.
On June17, an Armenian-Azerbaijani-Russian presidential meeting was held in Saint Petersburg.
