In 2018, the situation on the contact line of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani conflict troops can be conditionally considered relatively stable. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of Artsakh.

As a result of the large-scale engineering-strengthening and front-line video surveillance systems work carried out during 2018, the possibility of subversive infiltration attempts by the enemy has almost completely disappeared. Except for the case of January 25, when an attempt of Azerbaijani reconnaissance and diversionary infiltration in the defense sector of one of the positions located in the south-eastern (Kuropatkino) direction of the PA was confirmed by the advance units of the PA and repelled, the enemy did not take similar steps during the year.

The relatively calm situation on the front line has been stabilized even more as a result of the meeting between the RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the President of the Republic of Armenia Ilham Aliyev at the session of the CIS Heads of State Council on September 28 in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, when the parties reached an agreement to reduce the tension in the border zone and establish operational contact. Thus, if in the months from March to August, the Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire regime in the contact zone, in addition to shooting weapons, they also used different types of grenade launchers, then in the period after that, they used them only exclusively. firearms.

In general, according to the summary of operational data of the Defense Ministry, in 2018, in 2018, in the contact line of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani conflict troops, the regime of the ceasefire was violated by the enemy about 10,000 times, during which more than 97,000 shots were fired at the Armenian positions, using different types of grenade launchers (25 shells).

2018 during this period, the advance guard military units of the Armed Forces confidently carried out the control of the situation along the entire border, honorably fulfilling their mission of ensuring the integrity of the borders of the Artsakh Republic and the peaceful life of the population.