NKR MoD: Two servicemen killed: all types of artillery weapons used
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Ministry reports that Azerbaijani violated the verbally agreed ceasefire 80 times on April 25-26 overnight, firing from almost all types of artillery weapons, including 60-mm mortars (26 shots), 82-mm mortars (75 shots), RPG-7 (7 shells), HHN-9 (2 shells) and HAN-17 (3 shells) grenade launchers and Zu-23-2 mm anti-aircraft twin-barreled autocannon (200 shells), TR-107 rocket launcher and tank. In addition to the military positions, the adversary also shelled Martakert settlement from MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher (14 shells). Mataghis was also shelled (8 shells). As a result of the ceasefire violations by the adversary, the DA contractual servicemen Tigran Mkhitar Poghosyan (born in 1992) and Aram Nikolay Arushanyan (born in 1972) received fatal gunshot wound. The NKR Ministry of Defense shares the heavy grief of loss and expresses its support to the family, relatives and fellow servicemen of the deceased servicemen. In order to neutralize the aggressive actions by the adversary, the Karabakh Army took preventive actions and opened targeted fire at the adversary’s frontier positions and artillery bases, causing significant losses of manpower and military equipment. At the moment the situation is relatively calm along the entire Line of Contact between the opposing forces. On April 25-26 overnight 15 cases of ceasefire violation were registered in the northeastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border. The Azerbaijani side opened sporadic fire from different caliber rifle and sniper weapons in the direction of the Armenian positions. The RA AF vanguard units, displaying restraint, took retaliatory actions only in case of strict necessity and confidently keep the border situation under control. RA MoD
