Overnight December 26-27, the adversary violated the ceasefire along the Line of Contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan more than 70 times firing over 850 shots towards the Armenian frontier troops from weapons of different calibers. As the Press Service of the NKR Defense Ministry reports in a released statement, Azerbaijani forces also applied 60mm mortar (1shell) in the southern direction (Hadrut).
NKR Defense Army forces undertook countermeasures to the Azerbaijani provocation only in case of strict necessity and continued confidently fulfilling their military duty.