The situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, along the Tavush-Tovuz section, has been tense since the afternoon of July 12 and that firing from both sides has occurred.

On that day, in a Facebook post, Armenian Ministry of Defense Press Secretary Shushan Stepanyan wrote that at 12:30 local time Azerbaijani soldiers tried to cross the border into Armenia in a UAZ (УАЗ) utility vehicle.

Stepanyan noted that after a warning issued by the Armenian side, the Azerbaijani servicemen left the UAZ car and returned to their positions.

At 13:45, the Azerbaijani servicemen repeated their attempt to occupy the border post of the Armenian Armed Forces, using artillery fire, but were pressured by the Armenian side and, suffering losses, were repulsed. Stepanyan added that there are no losses on the Armenian side.

Following an Armenian Ministry of Defense press conference, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense issued an official statement stating that two Azerbaijani servicemen were killed and five others were wounded in an incident on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on July 12.

In the same statement, Azerbaijan insisted that "the Armenian side has losses," but Stepanyan had earlier denied the Azerbaijani side's allegations.

In the evening of the same day, Stepanyan wrote that after the announcement spread in the afternoon, her Facebook page was inundated with incendiary comments from Azerbaijanis.

Stepanyan wrote: "Judging by the mass influx of Azerbaijanis to my page and the nervous comments, one thing can be concluded, that, in fact, our servicemen have skillfully hurt the Azeri servicemen, who first tried to cross the border for an unknown reason during the day, to which our servicemen, as a sign goodwill, offered a chance to escape.”

A few minutes later, the website Banak.info published a photo of the damaged UAZ car. The car was in the neutral zone. Late in the evening, Stepanyan stated that the Azerbaijani side had resumed shelling in the same Armenian position using an 82 mm mortar shells and tanks. She added that the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan will bear full responsibility for the escalation of the situation.

At the same time, Artsakh Presidential Spokesman Vahram Poghosyan wrote on his Facebook page that there is relative calm along the entire Artsakh-Azerbaijani border.

He noted. "As the enemy is shelling one of the positions of the Armenian state border in the direction of Tavush, I suppose that the majority of the society, especially the parents of many servicemen, are also interested in the situation on the Artsakh-Azerbaijani border. At the moment, there is relative calm along the entire border, and the Artsakh Defense Army continues to confidently fulfill its task.”

Former Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan reported that in addition to human losses, the Azerbaijani side also suffered equipment losses, adding that the Armenian side hit an Azeri drone.

Around midnight, Azerbaijan officially confirmed that a third soldier had died. 

At the same time, Azerbaijani hackers launched DDOS (Distributed denial of service attack)  hits against sites with .am domains. Hetq's website was also attacked, but it was completely restored.