STEPANAKERT. - It has become regularity that whenever the armed forces of Azerbaijan attempt preventive measures to destabilize the situation on the line of contact, the boomerang effect takes the lives of Azerbaijani soldiers one after another, says the Statement of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army.

“NKR Defense Army does not violate the ceasefire. Only in the event of absolutely necessary it takes appropriate steps to suppress the preventive actions of the Azerbaijani army, which, of course, causes losses on the opposite side. The recent violation of ceasefire on behalf of Azerbaijani side is an outright example of this: the enemy killed one Armenian soldier, another two were wounded, however the retaliatory fire of the Armenian side took the lives of two Azeri soldiers, another one committed suicide by hanging himself. The pattern established on the contact line is that for each killed Armenian soldier the enemy pays by the lives of three soldiers,” reads the statement.

“Not only Azerbaijani Defense Ministry official reports that Armenian forces violate ceasefire almost every day are false, they are also tools for internal and external propaganda,” added Lieutenant-Colonel Senor Hasratyan.

According to the NKR Defense Ministry, Azerbaijani army lost 13 men killed (three of them committed suicide) and 12 soldiers wounded in September and the first week of October. During the same period NKR Defense Army registered three fatal cases and two cases of wounding.