Military exercises of the Karabakh army. Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic http://www.nkrmil.am/history-of-defence-army/view/39

21 April 2019, 11:53

NKR counts 250 shelling attacks over the week

On April 14-20, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 2200 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 7-13, the NKR fixed 230 shelling attacks in the conflict zone.

Over the week from April 14 to April 20, 2019, over 2200 shots were fired by Azerbaijan, mainly from small arms, the NKR's MoD has reported.

It should be noted here that Azerbaijan is also regularly declaring violations of the truce. Thus, on April 20, according to the MoD of Azerbaijan, 21 machine gun shelling attacks were registered in the border areas.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on April 20, 2019 at 02:35 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

See earlier reports:

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of machine gun fire, Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of 230 shelling attacks per week, Armenian analysts estimate probability of war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Author: Alvard Grigoryan Source: CK correspondent

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