On February 27 to March 5, 240 ceasefire violations (with 1200 shots fired) by the Azerbaijani side were registered in the contact line between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Karabakh.

The Azerbaijani units fired at Karabakh positions from different types of small arms, including sniper rifles, the NKR Defense Ministry press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. The shelling was particularly intensive in south-eastern, central and north-eastern directions of Nagorno-Karabakh on March 3-4. With retaliatory fire the NKR Defense Army neutralized the enemy.