YEREVAN. – Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire, at their line of contact with Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s armed forces, over 13,780 times since the beginning of this year. 

Azerbaijan made use of sniper weaponry more than 2,560 times and large-caliber weapons, close to 360 times, Armenia’s MOD reports.   

And twelve Armenian military servicemen were killed and twenty-one others—including three civilians—were wounded as a result of Azerbaijan’s ceasefire violations since the beginning of 2012.  

To note, Azerbaijan wishes to set new “records” in terms of breaching the truce in recent years. It violated the ceasefire approximately 600 times in 2006; 1,400 times in 2007; 3,500 times in 2008; almost 4,600 times in 2009; 7,200 times in 2010; and more than 12,600 times in 2011.