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Armenia fires warning shots at Azeri border - RIA

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia's defence ministry said on Thursday it had fired warnings shots at the border with Azerbaijan due to an alleged Azeri incursion, the RIA news agency reported.

Armenia accused Azerbaijan of sending troops across the border last week, highlighting the fragility of a Russian-brokered ceasefire that halted six weeks of fighting between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces last year. Azerbaijan has previously denied crossing the frontier.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Alison Williams)