On March 17, at 5:30 p.m. a soldier of the NKR Defense Army Aharon Hayrapetyan (born in 1991) was killed in the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side.

The Armenian serviceman was fatally wounded in the eastern direction (near Askeran) of the contact line of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces. He was immediately taken to military hospital, but died at 6:59 p.m.,” the Information Department of the NKR Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The fact that the new attacks from the Azerbaijani side were carried out after an hour the exchange of war prisoners under the Presidents’ agreement in Sochi, indicates that the Azerbaijani side does not only respect the ceasefire, but also tries to deliberately avoid any mission for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” NKR Defense Army said in a statement.

“International organizations involved in the conflict settlement should give an adequate response to this fact,” the statement reads.