STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire, at the line of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, around 300 times in the passing week.

During this time, more than 1,500 shots were fired in the direction of Armenian positions, and by way of different-caliber weapons, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army press service reports.

The ceasefire violations sharply increased especially in the early morning hours of, and all through Saturday, during which the vanguard divisions of the Azerbaijani army fired over 400 shots in the direction of the Defense Army military positions.    

The Defense Army vanguard units, however, did not respond to the adversary’s such provocative actions, they continued to honor the ceasefire and confidently carried out their military turn of duty along the entire length of the line of contact.