Frontline situation relatively calm: NKR presidential spokesman

PanARMENIAN.Net - The situation was relatively calm on Karabakh-Azerbaijan border last night and there was no incident, Panorama.am reports quoting the Nagorno Karabakh presidential spokesman.

“There is always shooting – this is the enemy’s style,” David Babayan said, adding that there has been no other incident.

At around 8:30 am on Thursday, March 19 an Azerbaijani special detachment launched an attack against the Nagorno Karabakh military positions located in the northern direction (Gyulistan). As a result of the military operation, which lasted for about two hours, the Armenian frontier troops and assisting forces repelled the enemy. The Armenian forces pursued the rival, and completely destroyed the Azeri detachment. Three servicemen of Karabakh Defense Army, Hakob Khachatryan (born in 1996), Eduard Hayrapetyan (born in 1995) and Arshak Harutyunyan (born in 1995), were killed while repelling the enemy attack. Four more servicemen were wounded.

The U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick also commented on the situation. “Renewed violence in Nagorno-#Karabakh is tragic and violates the ceasefire. While the sides blame each other, the actions undermine #NKpeace,” Warlick said in his Twitter post.