The situation on the frontline is under full control, and the advanced detachments can adequately retaliate against Azerbaijani armed actions, Vice-Chief of the Joint Staff, Armed Forces of Armenia, Lieutenant-General Movses Hakobyan told reporters on Friday.
“The situation is really tense on the border – not only now or on the threshold of the military exercises.
Tension has been growing for two years. And increased tension on the threshold of the military exercises is mere coincidence and has nothing with the exercises, which were planned last November,” Mr Hakobyan said.
Speaking of the latest Azerbaijani aggression against civilians in Armenia’s borderline regions and of a possibility of events similar to those last August, he said that nothing can be ruled out.
“But we are doing our utmost to prevent a situation similar to that last August. As to civilians, if we recall the war, we can see the enemy is in the habit of doing it and we should not be surprised. When the enemy cannot retaliate on the frontline, they begin using arms against civilians,” Mr Hakobyan said.
Armed forces are not for sniping at civilians, but for defending them, he said.