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YEREVAN, APRIL 7, ARMENPRESS. One death was registered among the hospitalized that were wounded during the conflict in the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan. Head of the medical department of the Defense Ministry of Armenia, Colonel Kamavor Khachatryan says this is unprecedented. “121 were wounded during the operations. 5 are in critical condition. 10 are in moderate-severe condition. Others received light shrapnel wounds, they will soon recover. One more wounded was transported here a bit earlier from the Defense Army”, “Armenpress” reports Kamavor Khachatryan saying at a press conference. According to him, 32 wounded are currently being treated in the Central Military Hospital.
“All of them are asking to return to service, they say they are obliged to do so. It is their duty”, he said.
According to Colonel Khachatryan, the medical personnel worked very effective from the very beginning. “The bravery of the doctors is priceless. We had 1 death among the wounded in the hospital. This is very sad, but only 1 death is the result of an excellent work. The death happened in the Martakert hospital”, he added, stressing that earlier, when doctors were treating the wounded, the adversary shelled an Ambulance vehicle.
“The international convention prohibits firing at Ambulance vehicles, at vehicle with “Red Cross” signs. There were no casualties, several doctors were wounded”, Kamavor Khachatryan said.
He also added that during this time they actively cooperated with the Ministry of Healthcare. “Being confident in our resources and strengths, we did not use our reserves”, he said.
Along the entire length of the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces, on April 1 and throughout the morning of April 2, the adversary undertook large-scale offensive military actions, during which the adversary shelled with missile-artillery units not only Armenian defense positions, but also civilian settlements.
According to the data of the Defense Army, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two other children. 4 other civilians were wounded later.On April 3 the subversive group of Azerbaijan brutally killed 3 elderly and vandalized their corpses in Talish village.
The Armenian side has 32 causalities, 25 soldiers missing, 121 wounded. 5 more people including the heads of two rural communities of Syunik Marz,were killed on their way to Martakert on April 4.
Due to the timely and professional actions of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army, it was possible to take the situation under control, and make the enemy suffer considerable losses. On April 1-5 as a result of the crushing counterattacks by the Armenian side against the military aggressions towards the Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijan lost 2 helicopters, 24 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 7 UAVs, 1 21-MM multiple rocket launcher system. During military operations the Azerbaijani armed forces had more than 300 causalities, nearly 2000 wounded. On April 5 at 12:00, the fire was ceased in the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces. The agreement of ceasing the fire was reached at the meeting of the Chiefs of General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on April 5.
Azerbaijan intensively violates the ceasefire. In the early morning of April 7, two sabotage penetration attempts were made by Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijani armed forces fired towards civilian settlements and military units of the Armenian Vardenis city on April 6, 10:35-23:00. In particular, besides firing various caliber weapons, the Azerbaijani side fired large caliber heavy machine guns and 60mm mortars. The Armed Forces of Armenia did everything for maintaining the ceasefire agreement.