STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing around 50 times, from late Wednesday night to early Thursday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 500 shots toward the position-holders of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic/NKR) Defense Army, and with different-caliber shooting weapons, including sniper rifles, the defense army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

The adversary used sniper rifles more intensively in the southeastern and eastern directions of the line of contact, where it fired 86 shots.

But the Artsakh defense army vanguard units took actions in response to suppress the aggressive “activeness” by the Azerbaijani armed forces, and continued confidently carrying out their military watch.