The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire along the Artsakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact over 250 times in the past week, the country’s defense ministry reported on Saturday.
In the period from March 9-16, the adversary fired around 3,000 shots towards the Armenian defense positions from firearms of different calibers, the ministry added. Apart from the mentioned ceasefire violations, in the morning hours of March 13, the Azerbaijani forces applied 60mm mortars (9 shells) toward Akna direction in the eastern section of the Line of Contact.
The Defense Army frontline units fully control the situation at the frontline and continue confidently implementing their combat duties.
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