13:58, 17 March 2020

Azerbaijan registers 21 shelling attacks from Armenian side

Servicemen of the Azerbaijani Army. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan, https://mod.gov.az/ru/foto-arhiv-045/?gid=28995

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 16, Azerbaijan claimed shelling attacks on three villages on the border with Armenia and registered 24 cases of ceasefire violations within 24 hours.

"Units of the Armenian armed forces used sniper rifles and 21 times violated the ceasefire in various directions of the front within 24 hours," the Azerbaijani MoD reports on its official website today.

According to the Azerbaijani MoD, the positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the village of Gushchu Airym in the Gazakh District were shelled.

As at 9:30 a.m. Moscow time on today, the Ministries of Defence of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have not posted on their official websites any comments on the statement released by the Azerbaijani MoD.

After the escalation of the Karabakh conflict in April 2016, the parties to the conflict agreed on a ceasefire, but the confrontation did not stop. In 2019, Azerbaijan registered a period of almost complete ceasefire on the front, which lasted about a month, and Nagorno-Karabakh announced the lowest number of shelling attacks on its positions within 10 years.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 17, 2020 at 09:44 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.