Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, who is the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, will pay a visit to the sector of the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.

A diplomatic source has informed about the abovementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am. As per the same source, the visit will be conducted in the coming days, and the field commanders will accompany the OSCE ambassador. 

The 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, and 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. Information was disseminated some time thereafter, however, that a member of the helicopter crew may still be alive The adversary, on the other hand, continues to intensively fire shots toward the crash site.   

The OSCE Minsk Group, Armenia MFA, European Union, and United Nations representatives already have condemned this incident.    

In addition, NKR has petitioned to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), with a request to help determine the fate of the three crew members of this helicopter.