The adversary violated the arrangement to cease fire along the Line of Contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces, and which started from Wednesday at 7:30pm and continued until early Thursday morning, by using rifle weaponry, grenade launchers, and mortars.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army (NKR/Artsakh DA) informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that, as a result of the gunfire by the Azerbaijani armed forces, NKR DA serviceman Armen Martirosyan (born in 1996) was mortally wounded on Wednesday at around 8pm, in a DA military unit located in a northerly direction.
An investigation is underway to find out the details of the incident.
“[But] as a result of the actions taken in response by the DA vanguard units, the adversary’s activeness was suppressed,” the respective NKR Ministry of Defense statement reads.
