STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces around 45 times, from late Wednesday night to early Thursday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 1,000 shots toward the Armenian military positions, and by way of various caliber shooting weapons, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In addition, the adversary fired from a mortar, in an eastern (Martuni) direction.

But the NKR Defense Army vanguard units took actions in response solely when absolutely necessary, and continued confidently and stably defending their primary natural frontline, all along the line of contact.