On the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan near the village of Somoniyon, as of the evening of January 27, four Kyrgyz soldiers and 11 citizens of Tajikistan were wounded. The death of one citizen of Tajikistan is also reported.

On the evening of January 27, negotiations were to be held between representatives of local authorities and law enforcement agencies from both sides. However, according to Tajikistan, representatives of Kyrgyzstan did not come to the meeting. The press center of the border service of Kyrgyzstan, in turn, reported the following. "It was planned that during the ceasefire period, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Batken region A. Alimbaev would meet with the governor of the Sughd region of Tajikistan, as well as border representatives of the parties. However, the Tajik side again violated bilateral ceasefire agreements and continued shelling the positions of the Kyrgyz military personnel ", - reports RIA Novosti.

The press center of the border troops of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) of Tajikistan stated that "from the side of the Kyrgyz Republic in the direction of the Republic of Tajikistan, intense fire is being waged on local residents, vehicles and various infrastructure facilities. Border outposts are fired from mortars. Flights of unmanned aerial vehicles with violation of the airspace of the Republic of Tajikistan". The statement was published on the website of the Khovar news agency.

According to the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan, the reason for the conflict was that earlier on January 27, "a group of unknown citizens of Kyrgyzstan in the amount of fifty people from among the inhabitants of the village council of Aksai, Batken region, on a bridge near the settlement of Khodjai-Alo, forcibly stopped a car of the Porter brand of a citizen Tajikistan, transporting sand, moving through Tajik territory from the settlement of Khodjai-Alo to the village of Somoniyon, Isfara district.

Due to the aggravation of the situation, several villages in the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan were left without electricity. While there are skirmishes, the repairmen refuse to go to the line for repairs.

Earlier, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas held telephone conversations with Secretary of the Security Council of Tajikistan Nasrullo Mahmudzoda and his Kyrgyz counterpart Marat Imankulov, during which he demanded an immediate ceasefire.

Border conflicts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan flare up regularly, as both sides claim a number of lands, and the border sometimes runs right along the road.

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