Azerbaijani tanks take part in military drills, July 4, 2018. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan, , https://mod.gov.az

29 March 2019, 15:25

Azerbaijan registers 21 shelling attacks in conflict zone

Positions of the Azerbaijani army came under fire, including in two border villages, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 28, Azerbaijan claimed shelling of its four villages and registered 20 violations of the ceasefire. However, the planned monitoring of the OSCE on the line of troop contact did not reveal any violations of the ceasefire regime.

"During 24 hours, units of the Armenian armed forces 21 times violated the ceasefire in different directions of the front," reports today the website of the Azerbaijani MoD.

According to the Azerbaijani MoD, the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the villages of Kemerli and Gaimagly in the Gazakh District came under fire.

As at 10:30 a.m. Moscow time on today, the Ministries of Defence for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have not posted on their websites any comments on the statement voiced by the Azerbaijani MoD.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 29, 2019 at 10:33 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

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