YEREVAN. – Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was relatively calm at night.

Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the Press Secretary of the Minister of Defense of Armenia, told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He added that even though shots were fired, they were not too many. 

And as for two of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army soldiers who were wounded during the recent Azerbaijani sabotage attempt and were transferred to Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, Aram Asaturyan, Director of the Armenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) Central Clinical Military Hospital, told Armenian News-NEWS.am that they are in good condition.

As reported earlier, an enhanced team from Azerbaijan’s special military detachment launched an attack, on Thursday at around 8:30am, on the NKR Defense Army positions stationed in a northerly (Gyulistan) direction. 

As a result of the skirmish that lasted about two hours, the Armenian military position holders and the relief forces compelled the adversary to flee. Subsequently, they pursued the said Azerbaijani military team and completely crushed them nearby their own military position.            

Unfortunately, NKR Defense Army servicemen Hakob Khachatryan (born in 1996), Eduard Hayrapetyan (born in 1995), and Arshak Harutyunyan (born in 1995) died, and four others were wounded while confronting the adversary.