Baku reports ten Armenian violations of truce in Karabakh over past day
BAKU. May 20 (Interfax) - The Armenian Armed Forces committed ten violations of the ceasefire regime along the contact line in the conflict zone in the past 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry press service reported on Friday.
According to the ministry, the gunfire was coming from the territory of Armenia and from the side of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).
Tensions in the Karabakh conflict zone abruptly escalated in the small hours of April 2. Hostilities engaging aircraft and artillery began. The sides traded accusations of the breach of ceasefire along the contact line, as well as claiming the adversary's substantial losses and limited losses of their own.
On April 5, Baku and Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, announced that an agreement had been reached to cease fire in the Karabakh conflict area from midday local time. Since then the sides have been daily trading accusations of multiple truce breaches.