Situation on contact line kept strained last week

The operational situation along the contact line of Karabakh-Azerbaijan armed forces kept strained over the past week. Between October 24 and 30, Azerbaijani army violated ceasefire regime more than 165 times most intensively firing at NKR positions in Hadrut and Martakert resulting in death of Armenian serviceman Harut Grigoryan on October 26, around 04:45 pm in Martakert.

It is noteworthy that the enemy undertook provocative actions just hours after OSCE monitoring mission which testifies to official Baku’s unconstructive approach aimed at destabilizing the situation. Thus, only in October, Azerbaijani army violated ceasefire over 750 times firing in total 7000 shots. Therefore, the only conclusion one should draw is that the reports issued by Azerbaijan’s official and unofficial sources of propaganda that allegedly Armenian forces periodically violate ceasefire regime on the contact line is nothing else but purposeful misinformation aimed at misleading the international community.

As to the NKR Defense Army operations aimed at neutralization of enemy’s periodical provocations, they are coordinated and purposeful which enables us not only to suppress enemy’s aggression but also to constantly keep the situation under control, NKR Defense Army reported.