“In a deliberate provocation, Azerbaijani armed gang killed 3 soldiers of Karabakh Defense Army. Baku bears responsibility for further developments,” Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tigran Balayan tweeted on Saturday. Balayan’s comment came following the Azerbaijani ceasefire violations, resulting in killing of four Armenian soldiers since Friday evening.
To remind, on June 16, at around 18:05, the Azerbaijani forces broke the ceasefire regime across Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact applying rocket-propelled antitank grenade launchers, as a result of which 3 Karabakh Defense Army servicemen – Arayik Matinyan (b. 1997), Vigen Petrosyan (b. 1997) and Vardan Sargsyan (b. 1997) were fatally wounded.
In the morning of June 17, at around 09:40, the Azerbaijani forces undertook a fresh provocation at the northern direction of the contact line, killing another Artsakh Army soldier identified as Narek Tigran Gasparyan (b. 1997).