STEPANAKERT. – The adversary continued to intensively shell along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces, from late Wednesday night to early Thursday morning.
During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 240 missiles at the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army positions, and by way of tanks, mortars, cannons, reactive rocket propelled howitzers, and Grad missile launchers.
The NKR Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that there was more intense firing in easterly, northerly, and northeasterly directions of the Line of Contact.
In addition Mataghis village of Artsakh was shelled from Grad missile launchers.
To neutralize the adversary’s aggressive actions, however, vanguard units of the NKR Defense Army took preventive actions that are consistent with the development of the operational situation.
“The situation is relatively calm at this time,” the respective statement reads.
