On weekends, in Karabakh-Azerbaijani contact line, the opponent has released more than 1200 shots from various caliber weapons in the direction of the Armenian armed forces. In addition to the above mentioned, the Azerbaijani armed forces have used 60-mm mortars (2 projectiles) in the direction of south of the contact-line. According to military expert, Karen Vrtanesyan, another attempt to exacerbate the situation by Azerbaijani side is noticed, “The official representatives of the Armed Forces stressed that the enemy is trying to provoke.
At first, they posted a material that allegedly the Armenian side is trying to do an act of sabotage, published a photo, the Armenian side commented, everything is quiet, simply, Azerbaijanis are trying to create an impression that something has happened from the Armenian side. After that, they disseminated a video on bombing from trucks mortars, claiming that it was done by the Armenian side, the Armenian side did not deny but stressed that we have no casualties. We have proof of escalating the situation and continuing to escalate, as to what the reason is, it is difficult to say, maybe there were some local and minor incidents, which we are not aware of.” In Karen Vrtanesyan’s words, there is nothing extraordinary, “Compared to previous weeks, they are trying to aggravate the situation but similar things happened last year too, it is not new for us.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
