YEREVAN. – Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire, at their line of contact with Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, over 15,830 times since the beginning of this year. 

Azerbaijan made use of sniper weaponry more than 3,000 times and large-caliber weapons, around 430 times, Armenia’s MOD press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.   

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

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