Stepanakert accuses Baku of mortar strikes
STEPANAKERT. May 10 (Interfax) - The Azerbaijani side continued to violate the truce agreement on the contact line between the sides' forces overnight into Tuesday, using different kinds of small arms, as well as 60mm and 82mm mortars, the press service of the Defense Ministry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Forward units of the Defense Army continue to confidently carry out their combat duty, resorting to response measures only when it is necessary," Nagorno-Karabakh's Defense Ministry said.
Tensions in the Karabakh conflict zone abruptly escalated in the early hours of April 2. Hostilities engaging aircraft and artillery began. The sides traded accusations on 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. Since then, the parties have exchanged daily accusations of numerous ceasefire breaches.