STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces about 75 times, from late Wednesday night to early Thursday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired close to 2,000 shots toward the Armenian position-holders, and by way of various caliber weapons, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In addition, the adversary fired 12 shells from an automatic grenade launcher, in southerly and southeasterly directions of the line of contact, and 6 shells from a mortar, toward the eastern (Martuni Region) defense sector.

But the NKR Defense Army vanguard units took necessary actions to quell the aggressive activeness by the Azerbaijani armed forces, and continued confidently carrying out the military task set before them.