Karabakh Army: Azerbaijan Opened Fire at Night, One Soldier Dead

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.