Stepanakert says Azerbaijan resumed shelling
STEPANAKERT. April 28 (Interfax) - At 8 p.m. local time on Thursday Azeri troops resumed shelling the positions of the defense army of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), a spokesman for the NKR defense ministry told Interfax on Thursday.
NKR positions were targeted with 60-, 82- and 120-millimeter mortars, he said.
"To suppress the enemy activity, our defense army units are undertaking preventive measures," the NKR defense ministry said.
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.