STEPANAKERT. – The adversary carried out a sabotage and intelligence-gathering infiltration attempt, on Wednesday at around 3am, toward the Karvachar defense positions on the Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.

But the Armenian vanguard military units detected this advancement by the special forces of the Azerbaijani army on time, and as a result, these special forces were driven back to their original positions while suffering losses, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic MOD reported.

Sadly, however, Armenian military serviceman Nahapet Asatryan (born in 1982) was killed, whereas serviceman Hovhannes Gasparyan (born in 1973) was wounded during the skirmish.

An investigation is launched to ascertain the details of this incident.