Parties to the Karabakh conflict accuse each other of violating the declared truce
“We are committed to the ceasefire. But in case of shelling of settlements, the response of the Azerbaijani side will be tough. We warned. The Ministry of Defense once again declares that the Armenian side continues to violate the cease-fire in various directions of the contact line. And the forced retaliatory measures of our armed forces in order to prevent these provocations will be very tough, ”the newspaper quoted Dargahly Look.
The representative of the NKR military department Senor Asratyan refuted this statement, reporting in turn about the cease-fire violations by Azerbaijan.
“Azerbaijani Armed Forces once again violated the cease-fire. As a result of mortar shelling near 18.30 (MSK) by the Azerbaijani forces in the north in the direction of the Martakert region, a soldier of the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh was killed, ”said Asratyan on Wednesday.
According to him, “despite the fact that the enemy almost constantly violates the cease-fire, the Karabakh units do not lose hold and do not respond to provocations by the Azerbaijani forces.”
On the same day, on Wednesday, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of “violating the cease-fire regime” outside of Karabakh - on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic.
Representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan answered this accusation.
“The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, apparently, confused Nagorno-Karabakh with Nakhichevan. Otherwise, it is simply impossible to explain their message. What kind of ceasefire are they talking about when it never existed on the border between Armenia and Nakhichevan? With whom did they agree on this regime, and what kind of cease-fire are they talking about when there were no fights? Maybe they were there fighting someone else? But certainly not with us, ”he said.
“There is no shooting in the direction of Nakhichevan. Everything is absolutely calm there, ”Hovhannisyan added.
Information