Press Release

4 May, 2016 09:01
On the night of May 3rd and 4th, the adversary continued to fire intermittently at Armenian border patrol situated along the northeast portion of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, using assault rifles and sniper rifles of various calibers.

The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia confidently supervise the situation, resorting to appropriate countermeasures only during targeted ceasefire violations by the adversary.

According to information received from the NKR Defence Army, tensions remained high on the line of contact between NKR and Azerbaijan forced last night. The adversary continued to violate the ceasefire agreement using various calibers of rifles and mortars.

Front line subdivisions of the Defence Army continue to confidently carry out combat sentry duty, and resort to responsive measures only in the case of necessity.