STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces around 100 times, from Friday to early Saturday morning.

During this time, Azerbaijan fired more than 1,000 shots in the direction of Armenian military positions, and by way of rifle weaponry, mortars, and grenade launchers.

The adversary also opened fire—against the Armenian military positions—from Turkish-made reactive rocket propelled howitzers (TR-107), and, for the first time since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, from  a gun-howitzer.

As a result of the retaliatory actions taken by the vanguard units of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army, however, the adversary’s aggressive actions were silenced.

Press service of the NKR Defense Army reported earlier that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled at one of the northeastern protection areas of the NKR Defense Army unit on Friday at about 5:30pm. The fire was opened from Turkish-made reactive rocket propelled howitzers (TR-107).

Consequently, NKR Defense Army soldiers Norayr Khachatryan (born in 1995), Robert Mkrtchyan (born in 1995), Harut Hakobyan (born in 1997), and Karen Shahinyan (born in 1997) died from shrapnel wounds. There are wounded, too.