Karabakh holds Security Council meeting

PanARMENIAN.Net - Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan chaired a Security Council meeting Saturday, April 2, seeking to address the large-scale violations of ceasefire by the Azerbaijani troops along the Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line.

In his report, Defense Minister Levon Mnatsakanyan noted that the Karabakh army confidently controls the situation along the border, having successfully averted all attacks and causing severe losses to the rival forces.

At the end of the meeting, the President gave detailed instructions to the Defense Ministry and heads of all the corresponding bodies on safeguarding inviolability of frontiers and state security.

On the night of April 1-2, Azerbaijani armed forces initiated overt offensive operations in the southern, southeastern and northeastern directions of the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh, using artillery, armored fighting vehicles and air force equipment among other weapons.

Aside from the battles on the frontline, the rival has also carried out artillery strikes on civilian settlements and places of permanent deployment of several military units.

On April 2, at around 8:30 am, the rival used BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher in the Martuni direction of the contact line. 12-year-old Vaghinak Grigoryan was killed in the shelling, two more children were wounded.

Earleir, the Nagorno Karabakh special forces identified an Azerbaijani subversive group near the Levonarkh settlement and threw the saboterus back to their positions.

According to Armenia’s Defense Ministry, the rival troops retreated after suffering several human losses.

Military operations are currently underway.

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