Interfax - Russia & CIS Military Newswire
May 18, 2017 Thursday 11:10 AM MSK


Unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh says its military units take preventive
measures against Azerbaijani military

YEREVAN/BAKU. May 18

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have committed around 60 truce violations
by firing more than 650 shots along the contact line with the forces
of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) over the past 24
hours, the NKR Defense Ministry's press service said.

"Apart from small arms, the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan used grenade
launchers (23 projectiles) in the eastern sector of the contact line
and D-44 cannons (18 projectiles) and 82mm mortars (four projectiles)
in the north-eastern sector. Forward units of the NKR Defense Army
took preventive measures, continuing to confidently perform their
combat duty," the NKR Defense Ministry said.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's press service, for its part, said
that the Armenian military "have breached the ceasefire 115 times in
different sectors of the frontline in the past 24 hours, using
large-caliber machineguns and 60mm and 120mm mortars (32
projectiles)."