MP from "With Honour" opposition faction Tigran Abrahamyan commented on Facebook the Saturday incident near Shushi. Abrahamyan referred to the press release, issued by the Artsakh National Security Service which in his words, added no new details to the known facts, but was important in terms of official confirmation of the circumstances of the incident. 

"The statement contained an important formulation  - "an unknown man threw an explosive device at the Azerbaijani checkpoint in response to PROVOCATIVE ACTIONS of the Azerbaijani servicemen. This means that even if we put aside the hatred toward Azerbaijanis formed as a result of objective realities, the enmity and revenge, the NSSS release confirms that the incident itself has been provoked by the Azerbaijani provocation in response to which the Artsakh resident threw the explosive device," Abrahamyan wrote, concluding: "We should prove once again there is a need to introduce new security mechanisms in Artsakh based on the potential of the command of the Russian peacekeeping mission and the Artsakh Defense Army."