STEPANAKERT. – The adversary launched sabotage infiltration attempts, on Thursday and early Friday morning hours, in the eastern and northeastern directions of the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.

But the vanguard divisions of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army detected this advancement by the Azerbaijani special forces on time, and they drove them back to their original positions, the NKR MOD press service reported.

The Defense Army suffered no losses while engaging the adversary. According to preliminary data, however, the Azerbaijani side has suffered three casualties.

During this time, the adversary violated the ceasefire on the Line of Contact around 320 times, and more than 4,000 shots were fired in the direction of Armenian military positions, and by way of rifle weaponry, mine throwers, and grenade launchers.

The Defense Army vanguard units, however, keep the tactical operational situation under control, and they take retaliatory actions, if necessary.

As reported earlier, Azerbaijan intensively violates the ceasefire in recent days. Furthermore, it conducts sabotage attempts which, however, the Armenian armed forces successfully thwart.

As a result of the sabotage attempts and other operations that were carried out over the course of the past one week, the adversary suffered five or six casualties, two of whom had died by stepping on landmines.