YEREVAN. – It is still impossible to come near the Armenian helicopter which the Azerbaijanis have shot down.

Armenia defense minister’s press secretary Artsrun Hovhannisyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He noted that both the Armenian side and the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) are carrying out activities to be able to approach the chopper.

Hovhannisyan added that last night was relatively calm in the area.  

Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter on Wednesday. The chopper was downed during a training flight nearby the eastern sector of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots are believed to have been killed: The commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, and Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan. The adversary, however, continues to intensively fire shots toward the crash site.