Artsakh reports 170 Azerbaijani ceasefire violations this week

Panorama, Armenia
May 2 2020

Azerbaijani military breached the ceasefire along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact around 170 times in the past week. In the period from April 22 to May 2, the adversary fired more than 1,200 shots towards the Armenian defense positions from firearms of different calibers, the Artsakh Defense Ministry reported.

Apart from the mentioned breaches, on April 29, at around 15:00 and 17:25, the Azerbaijani armed forces applied 60mm mortars (8 shells) toward the military units located near Martuni, in the eastern section of the Line of Contact between the opposing forces.

“The frontline units of the Defense Army took response measures to suppress the activeness of the adversary and continue to confidently implementing their combat tasks,” the statement said.