Soldier died on contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh

Soldier Armen Arutyunyan was fatally wounded in the defensive area of a military unit of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army.

The incident has occurred today at 11:45 a.m. local time, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

Armen Arutyunyan, born in 1996, stayed in a military unit of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army, deployed in the northern direction of the contact line. He got a fatal wound as a result of shelling from the Azerbaijani side, reports the website of the Nagorno-Karabakh MoD.

No comments are available from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence concerning the incident. Meanwhile, today, Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of 130 cases of shelling per day.

Despite the ceasefire announced after the aggravation of conflict in April 2016, shelling in the Karabakh conflict zone occurred every day during the year, indicates the informational graphics "Karabakh after the ceasefire: 365 days of war" prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.