STEPANAKERT. – The Azerbaijani side violated ceasefire along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces more than 40 times, from late Wednesday night to early Thursday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired over 200 shots toward the Karabakh position-holders, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. The Azerbaijani armed forces fired from sniper rifles, 60 mm mortars and grenda lanchers.

 The Azerbaijani armed forces intensively fired especially in the eastern and north-eastern directions of the line of contact where 15 mortars were used.

The NKR Defense Army vanguard units are in command of the operational and tactical situation, and they continue confidently carrying out their military watch.