Azerbaijani forces make around 200 ceasefire violations over past week

Panorama, Armenia
Jan 27 2018

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire along the Line of Contact between Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and Azerbaijan nearly 200 times over the past week (from 21 to 27 January), firing more than 2,000 shots towards the Armenian defense positions, the press service of the Artsakh Ministry of Defense told Panorama.am.

Apart from the mentioned ceasefire breaches, the adversary initiated a sabotage infiltration attempt in the south-eastern section of the contact line on 25 January, at around 2am. As a result of the preventive measures taken by the Defense Army’s units, the Azerbaijani special forces were repelled. 

The frontline units of the Defense Army continue to keep the frontline situation under control and confidently fulfil their military tasks.