On the night of 30 April to the Morning of 1 May the enemy continued shooting towards the Armenian positions in the north eastern direction of the Armenian Azerbaijani border.
The vanguard divisions of the RA Armed Forces show restraint, resort to retaliatory actions only in case of necessity and confidently controlling the border situation.
According to the information received from the NKR defense Army, on the night of 30 April to the Morning of 1 May, the Azerbaijani forces continued to violate the arrangement on ceasing the fire along the entire Line of Contact between the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan, along with small arms using 60 mm, 82 mm and 120 mm mortars and different types of grenade launchers.
In the eastern direction (Martuni) as a result of those violations servicemen of the NKR Defense Army, Ashot Shavarsh Zohrabyan (born in 1991) received fatal injuries.
Ministry of Defense of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic shares the grief of the heavy loss and extends its condolences to the families, relatives and fellow servicemen of the deceased.
The NKR Ministry of Defense declares that the actions of the Azerbaijani army will not be left unanswered and all the responsibility for its consequences will lie with the Azerbaijani side.
