YEREVAN. – The adversary continues violating the ceasefire, but the situation on the border is not tense.
The Armenian defense minister’s press secretary, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
He added that even though shots are fired, they are not too many.
Hovhannisyan also noted that the Armenian side keeps the situation under control.
The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter on November 12. The chopper was downed during a training flight, and it crashed very close to the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots were killed: the commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, as well as Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan.
The adversary, on the other hand, was firing intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area.
But the remains of these three military servicemen plus some necessary parts of the chopper were retrieved from the helicopter’s crash site through a special operation by the NKR armed forces. As a result, the Azerbaijanis suffered serious casualties, whereas the Armenian side sustained none.
