STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 19, ARMENPRESS. The Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic told “Armenpress” that on January 18 and overnight January 19 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime over 70 times by firing more than 600 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions across the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.

In the southern, eastern and north-eastern directions of the line of contact, the Azerbaijani forces fired also “Black arrow”, “ISTIGLAL” and “SVD” sniper rifles, 90 shots in total.

The NKR Defense Army forces continued confidently fulfilling their military tasks and took countermeasure in case of strict necessity.