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Armenia Violates Karabakh Ceasefire 155 Times Over Last 24 Hours

© AFP 2023 / KAREN MINASYAN Armenian soldiers of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh walking in trenches at the frontline on the border with Azerbaijan.
Armenian soldiers of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh walking in trenches at the frontline on the border with Azerbaijan. - Sputnik International
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Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 155 times along the contact line in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh over the past 24 hours, according to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

BAKU (Sputnik) — The Armenian military has violated the ceasefire along the contact line in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 155 times over the past 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said Saturday in a statement.

"Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 155 times throughout the day, using large-caliber machine guns and 60 millimeter mortars (17 shells)," the statement reads.

Ethnic Armenian soldiers walk in a trench at their position near Nagorno-Karabakh's town of Martuni, April 8, 2016 - Sputnik International
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) proclaimed its independence from Azerbaijan in 1991. The military conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia ended in 1994, and Azerbaijan lost control over this Armenian-dominated region. The OSCE Minsk group has been trying to settle the conflict since 1992.

In April 2016, the clashes between the joint Armenian-NKR and Azerbaijani forces sparked in the region, when both sides accused each other of ceasefire violation. The sides agreed to a ceasefire on April 5, but clashes have continued.

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