YEREVAN. – The Armenian side is still unable to approach the helicopter which the Azerbaijanis have shot down.

Armenia defense minister’s press secretary Artsrun Hovhannisyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He noted that the Azerbaijanis continue to keep the area under fire. 

Hovhannisyan added that even though the adversary had fired shots at night, the situation is relatively stable.  

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter on Wednesday. The chopper was downed during a training flight, and it crashed nearby the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots are believed to have been killed: The commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, and Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan. Information was disseminated some time thereafter, however, that a member of the helicopter crew may still be alive. The adversary, on the other hand, continues to fire intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing the Armenian side access to the area.