24/01/2015 17:21
Defense Army: Azerbaijan made over 20 subversive attempts in past week
Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire about 1,800 times on the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the past week, according to the press service of Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
Over 20,000 shots were fired by Azerbaijan at Armenian frontline positions during that period.
Besides, in the indicated period special mission units of the Azerbaijani army made over 20 attempts of subversive-reconnaissance infiltration at various sections of the Line of Contact. They were thrown back to their initial positions and suffered losses.
“it should be noted that after the order of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev of September 24, 2014 about some measures to ensure the security on the Line of Contact of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia, the Azerbaijani side stopped releasing negative information on Azerbaijani troops, first of all information about failures of the Azerbaijani army on the Line of Contact.
Nevertheless, the NKR Defense Army, using means at its disposal, learned that in the indicated period Azerbaijan suffered losses as a result of preventive actions of Karabakh forces: at least 14 Azerbaijani servicemen were killed and over 20 others wounded. A commander’s car and a Sadko truck carrying troops were destroyed.
Frontline units of the NKR Defense Army confidently perform their military tasks along the Line of Contact and if necessary suppress the enemy’s activity, carrying out punitive operations of an operational-tactical nature,” NKR Defense Ministry said in a statement.