Trenches and fortifications near Kyrgyz village found by locals

AKIPRESS.COM - Villagers found trenches that were presumably dug by Tajik soldiers some hundreds of meters away from Maksat village, Leilek district of Kyrgyzstan's Batken region.
The villagers counted about 20 fortifications that were prepared during the events of April 28-May 1 on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. The distance from the Kyrgyz village is approximately 700 meters, according to the villagers who filmed them. Canned food and drinks were found in the trenches.
Maksat village became one of the spots of armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
One of the border conflicts in this place occurred in June 2018. Then shoots were fired into the air. The conflict back then erupted when the Tajik border guards forced the Kyrgyz citizens out of the football field where the Kyrgyzstanis traded.
In mid-September 2019, the Tajik side was the first to use weapons, firing mortars at the Kyrgyz border post Maksat and then the temporary border post Say in the Leilek district of Batken region. The reason for the incident was that citizens of Tajikistan began construction work on disputed section of the state border; in response, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan also began building a fence on his house located in the area.
The conflict on April 28-May 1 was the biggest and deadliest so far, the residents of Maksat village got their houses burned, facilities destroyed, cars burned. A school and a kindergarten were damaged, some of the buildings turned into ruins.
Maksat village is located 200 km away from the provincial center of Batken. The settlement borders on Tajikistan. Earlier it could be reached through the territory of Tajikistan, but later a road independent from its neighboring state was built.