Press Release

24 April, 2016 10:34
On April 23-24, the Azerbaijani side committed 18 violations on the north-eastern section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani national border. Azerbaijan released recurrent fire at Armenian positions with various calibre weapons and snipers.

The RA AF frontline subdivisions have exercised restraint, retaliated only in cases of strict necessity, and confidently pursue monitoring the situation on the border.

In accordance with the situational report conveyed by the NKR DA, active enemy artillery attacks on the line of contact between the opposing forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan – launched in the afternoon of April 23rd – have continued till the morning of April 24th.

Within the given timeframe, the Azerbaijani armed forces released intense fire in the south-eastern (Martakert) and southern (Talish ) directions, with 60mm (16 projectiles) and 82mm (99 projectiles) mortars, 122mm howitzer D-30 (19 projectiles), and TR-107 rocket launchers (25 projectiles).

The DA frontline subdivisions conducted operations which aimed at stabilizing the situation and suppressing the enemy.

The abovementioned aggressive actions carried out by the Azerbaijani side once again proves that the enemy deliberately persists in violating the ceasefire agreement established on the 5th of April, and aims to exacerbate the situation on the frontline.