Keeping faithful to its style and violating the armistice on the contact line, the Azerbaijani side once again organized firebrand sabotage. According to the information received from the press service of the NKR defence army, on the 31st of August, around 6:30 am in the North-Eastern part of the contact line between the Karabakh-Azerbaijan forces, towards one of the Armenian posts near the village of Verin Chaylu, the enemy has tried to realize sabotage activities. Due to the watchfulness of the Armenian post-keepers and as a result of the activities that were undertaken, enemy’s attack was halted, and the Azerbaijani special importance detachment, with casualties – wounded and dead – was thrown back to its posts. Unfortunately, during a close fight Private conscript of the defence army Rudik Tovmas Manaseryan, born in 1991, was wounded. The details of the incident are being examined.
The Azerbaijani side, as always, has ascribed the sabotage of their own initiative to the Karabakh forces and has disseminated information allegedly the Armenian side has had casualties, as a result of the encounter. These announcements are sole disinformation and do not correspond with the reality.
All of this, once again facts, that the government of the neighboring country ignores the efforts made towards a peaceful settlement of the NK conflict. They periodically undertake such activities, artificially destabilizing the situation at the borderline and endangering the settlement negotiation process.
Such a behavior of the Azerbaijani AF not only causes a tension at the Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line, but also does not correspond to the announcements of the authorities of the neighboring country on their readiness for a peaceful NK conflict settlement.

RA MoD Department of Information and Public Affairs