STEPANAKERT. – The adversary’s artillery aggressive “activeness,” which began on Saturday afternoon along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces, continued from late Saturday night to early Sunday morning. 

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that during this time the Azerbaijani armed forces opened intense fire at the position-holders of the Defense Army, in northeasterly (Martakert) and northerly (Talish) directions of the Line of Contact, and by way of rifle weaponry, mortars, cannons, and reactive rocket propelled howitzers. 

The adversary, however, targeted not solely Artsakh’s military positions, but Mataghis village, as a cannon shell fell on this village. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

Vanguard units of the NKR Defense Army, however, took actions to stabilize the situation and restrain the adversary.

The NKR Ministry of Defense stated that Azerbaijan’s aforesaid aggressive actions prove yet again that the adversary continues to overtly violate the arrangement to cease fire, which was reached on April 5, and to deliberately exacerbate the situation at the frontline.