STEPANAKERT. – In the recent period, an unprecedented rise is registered in ceasefire violations at the line of contact between Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces. And these violations intensively continued in the past week, too.   

In the last period of the month of September alone, the Azerbaijani army’s vanguard subdivisions fired more than 6,000 shots in the direction of Armenian positions, thereby violating the ceasefire approximately 900 times. It is noteworthy that nearly 35 percent of these violations was registered past week.

It is also noteworthy that such activeness in the offensives by the Azerbaijani side was more constant close to the festive days in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and Armenia. And naturally, this had the objective of affecting, in any way, the course of celebrations being organized and, of course, the Armenian public mood.

Based on the created situation, NKR Defense Army’s vanguard subdivisions took adequate responsive steps, and, in case of extreme necessity, also dealt the deserving counterstrike to the adversary, NKR Defense Army Press Service informed.