STEPANAKERT. – The adversary continued violating the ceasefire along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, from Friday to early Saturday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired around 2,300 shots at the Armenian military positions, and by way of rifle weaponry, a mortar, and a grenade launcher.

As a result of the actions taken in response by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army vanguard units, however, the aggressive “activeness” by the adversary was quelled.

Separately, press service of the NKR Ministry of Defense informed that Defense Army servicemen Sargis Ohanyan (born in 1997) was mortally wounded in a grenade explosion on Friday at around 3:45pm, in an NKR Defense Army military unit.

An investigation is underway to find out the details of this incident.