STEPANAKERT. – The adversary violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces more than 55 times, from late Sunday night to early Monday morning.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired about 430 shots toward the Armenian position-holders, and primarily with different-caliber shooting weapons, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The adversary fired more intense shots from sniper rifles (92 shots), and used a mortar (2 shells), in an easterly direction of the line of contact.

The NKR Defense Army vanguard units took actions in response, so as to quell the aggressive “activeness” by the adversary, and continued carrying out the military task set before them.

As reported earlier, as a result of the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces, NKR Defense Army serviceman Karen Ulubabyan (born in 1995) was mortally wounded on Sunday at around 11:25pm, at the protection area of an Artsakh defense army unit that is located in an easterly direction.

An investigation is underway to find out the details of this incident.