YEREVAN. – The adversary continued shooting toward the northeastern sector of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, from late Friday night to early Saturday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired irregular shots at the Armenian position-holders, and by way of rifle and sniper weaponry, informed the press service of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) of Armenia.

According to the MOD press release, the Armenian armed forces, however, control the border situation and confidently carry out their tasks.

As reported earlier, the tension along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces was maintained also from Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning. As a result, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army serviceman Hovhannes Poghosyan, 21, sustained a severe gunshot wound.

“It is noteworthy that the adversary has put upon the Karabakh side [the responsibility for] the bombing of the line of contact and its [own] measures of destabilizing the situation, which once again attests [to the fact] that the Azerbaijani side disregards the mediation efforts to settle the problem, and deliberately aggravates the situation,” the MOD press service stated. 

As a result of the actions taken in response by the NKR Defense Army vanguard units, however, the adversary’s “activeness” was suppressed.