YEREVAN. – Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was more or less calm at night.

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

In his words, even though shots were fired with different types of weapons, they were less than the previous week.

Hovhannisyan added that the border tension has reduced, and there were no unusual incidents.

As reported earlier, an enhanced team from Azerbaijan’s special military detachment launched an attack, on March 19 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.