YEREVAN, August 13. /ARKA/. Armenian troops, deployed along its border with Azerbaijan’s exclave Nakhichevan, opened fire in retaliation to Azerbaijani troops’ provocations, a spokesman for Armenian defense ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said in his Facebook page. He also said that Azerbaijani troops are likely to have suffered casualties.

During a visit to Moscow late last week Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan had a meeting with his Russian opposite number Sergey Shoigu and presented the situation on the line of contact between Armenian troops in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and along Armenia-Azerbaijan state border.

The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is a historic Armenian territory, now an exclave of Azerbaijan. -0-