Armenian soldier killed from the fire of the opponent

YEREVAN, JUNE 18, ARMENPRESS: Armenian soldier Aram Gyulnazaryan, 1993, was injured to death from the fire of the opponent at the line of contact between the Armed Forces of Karabakh and Azerbaijan on Monday morning.

The injured died on the way to hospital, press service of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Defense Army told Armenpress.

Defense Ministry commanders’ staff expresses its deepest condolences to the relatives of the killed Armenian soldier.

Though a ceasefire was signed between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh in May, 1994, Azerbaijan regularly violates the ceasefire regime. Only last week from June 10 to 16 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime at the line of contact between the Armed Forces of Karabakh and Azerbaijan about 1000 times, according to the operative data of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Defense Army.

Over 5500 shots were opened in the direction of the Armenian positions from weapons of different calibers. The NKR Defense Army vanguard subdivisions gave an adequate response to the provocative operations of the opponent and took relevant measures for successful organization of the defense of the line of contact.