Azeri MoD Registers 112 Karabakh Ceasefire Violations in 24 Hours

The Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh 112 times over the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's press service said on Monday.

BAKU (Sputnik) — The Armenian military has violated the ceasefire along the contact line in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 112 times over the past 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Monday.

"Despite the agreement on the ceasefire on the contact line in Karabakh, the Armenian side violated the ceasefire 112 times in the past day along the entire line," the ministry said in a press statement.

Azerbaijan's forces retaliated with 114 artillery strikes, the statement added.

Azerbaijan does not recognize the ethnically Armenian self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and considers the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army to be a part of the Armed Forces of Armenia.

The violence in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on April 2. Baku and Yerevan have accused each other of provoking hostilities that led to multiple deaths on each side.

The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh began in 1988, when the autonomous region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, before proclaiming independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The warring sides agreed to a cessation of hostilities in 1994.