STEPANAKERT. – The ceasefire violations along the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces increased from late Thursday night to early Friday morning, and the adversary breached the truce more than 85 times.

During this time the Azerbaijani armed forces fired more than 800 shots toward the Armenian position-holders, and with various weapons, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

In particular, the adversary fired a total of 21 shells from a cannon, mortars and grenade launchers, in easterly and northeasterly directions of the line of contact.

But the NKR Defense Army vanguard units took actions in response when necessary, and confidently carried out the military task set before them.