YEREVAN. – As of April 5 the aggressive actions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have intensified. The clashes continue.

It is reported growth of  tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, in particular, in Tavush region.

Armenian News - NEWS.am presents chronology of events.

• Karabakh MOD: In the early morning hours on Tuesday, the adversary used Smerch “whirlwind" heavy multiple rocket launcher system at the Line of Contact. No casualties were reported.  

• MOD: The Azerbaijani Armed Forces fired in the direction of Berdavan and Koti villages in Tavush Province of Armenia . Armenian military serviceman Zori Ashrafyan (born in 1983) sustained shrapnel wound. 

• The President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, urged the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to exert utmost efforts to pacifically settle the currently tense situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.  

• US Congress member Jim Costa: I question Aliyev’s sincerity in trying to reach a resolution. It is my hope the United States continues to work with the Minsk Group until the Azerbaijan government reverses its pattern of escalating violence against the peaceful people of Nagorno Karabakh. 

• The Defence Ministry of Armenia publicized the names of six Armenian military servicemen . 

• Karabakh army: Azerbaijan bombarded NKR Martakert town  on April 4.  

• Karabakh Defense Army’s press office has posted a video of a regular Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle destroyed on April 4. 

• NKR President's press secretary David Babayan: The reaction of the international community is necessary to curb Azerbaijani terrorist actions. 

• Chinese Foreign Ministry: Beijing hopes fot solving present situation through peaceful negotiations.

•  Mayor of Martakert Misha Gyurdzhyan:  As a result of yesterday's attack in Martakert there are new destructions. Women, children, old men are placed in safe places. People in their native land are ready to defend it. 

• Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: Tehran can assist in solving the contradictions of the parties if they wish.  

•  Spokesperson for the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan: In the Mataghis sector, the Azerbaijanis are removing, from the surroundings and intermediates of their own military positions, the corpses of the soldiers destroyed by their barring troops,” Hovhannisyan wrote. “They shot twice from the rear at their own troops which, under the pressure of Armenian divisions, were leaving the positions.” 

• NKR President's press secretary David Babayan: There are grounds to state that mercenaries from ISIL group or other terrorist organizations participated in military operations against NKR. This is evidenced by the set of circumstances: they communicated in the Turkish and Arab languages, were dressed in a different form and acted as fighters. Also differed on age – all were above 30. 

• Members of the Armenian community in Sweden carried out a demonstration against Azerbaijan in front of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.  

•  Press secretary of the Minister of Defense of Armenia: Azerbaijan is using the Israeli-made Harop unmanned combat air vehicles,in its current aggression.  

• French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal: Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - representatives of France, Russia and the US will visit Baku, Yerevan and Karabakh in the next few days.

• Spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Tigran Balayan: OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs will arrive in Yerevan to meet with President Serzh Sargsyan on April 9. 

• The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian informed  the heads of international organizations regarding Azerbaijan’s most recent military aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh.  

• President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , Bako Sahakyan  chaired a working consultation with members of the rapid response team.  http://news.am/eng/news/320691.html

• Lavrov: Everyone is making efforts to cease fire and that it does not resume. 

• The Minister of Defense of Armenia, Seyran Ohanyan, paid a visit to the military servicemen. 

• NKR presented photos of the Azerbaijani drone which was shot down   on April 5.

• David Babayan: We can independently solve the problem with Azerbaijan as we did it in 1991-94, but we hope that all the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs will take steps to resolve the situation.

• President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Bako Sahakyan visited Martakert regional center. 

• The Secretary-General of Collective Security Treaty Organization, Nikolay Bordyuzha: The escalation of situation in Nagorno-Karabakh can lead to a large conflict in the Caucasus. 

• OSCE Minsk Group countries urge the sides to cease using force immediately. 

• OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to visit Stepanakert on April 7.l

• The Vice President of the EU Commission Federica Mogherini spoke with the Azebrbaijani and Armenian FMs and called for an immediate de-escalation of violence in Karabakh. 

• First Deputy Minister of Defence Davit Tonoyan has presented to the EU ambassadors the consequences of Baku's aggression.

• Spokesperson of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army, Senor Hasratyan: Azerbaijani side started firing again in the north-eastern direction. 

• Davit Tonoyan: No ceasefire has been established, but the sides have agreed to halt hostilities. 

• President of Russia Vladimir Putin had phone conversations with Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.

• U.S. Ambassador to OSCE Daniel Baer at a special meeting of the Permanent Council: The United States remains firmly committed to working with the sides to reach a lasting and negotiated peace.  

•  The sides to the Karabakh conflict do not address to the ICRC concerning missing people.

Head of operative department , Colonel Victor Arustamyan hold  the press conference in the center of the operative department of  NKR  .

• The First Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Frants Klintsevich: Russia can stop selling weapons to Azerbaijan if the escalation and the armed conflict aren’t stopped.  

• Karabakh army: The Karabakh side suffered 29 casualties,100 soldiers were wounded, 28 people were missing  during the aggression. The number of victims and wounded in Azerbaijan has reached around 2,000.  

• Colonel Victor Arustamyan: No Karabakh position is under Azerbaijani control. 

• Secretary-General of the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Michaëlle Jean: Use of force in the zone of Karabakh conflict is unacceptable.  

• The Permanent Representative of Russia to OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich: Russia is against changing OSCE Minsk Group's the “troika” format.  

• Russian  MF:  Karabakh's issue will be a key point at the  meeting of  Russia-Iran-Azerbaijan FMs in Baku.