YEREVAN (Sputnik) — Armenia's border was fired at 18 times overnight by Azerbaijani forces despite a negotiated ceasefire, the Armenian Defense Ministry said Sunday.
"On the night of April 24, the Azerbaijani armed forces have again violated the ceasefire regime on the border with Armenia. The Azerbaijani side opened indiscriminate fire of firearms of different caliber 18 times in the direction of Armenian positions in the northeast," the ministry’s statement reads.
Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s Defense Ministry said Azerbaijan had been shelling the disputed region’s positions since mid-Saturday.
According to Baku, the ceasefire regime along the contact line with Azerbaijan was violated 108 times by Armenian forces in the past 24 hours.
Violence in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region with a predominantly Armenian population escalated early this month. Baku and Yerevan have accused each other of provoking hostilities. A ceasefire was achieved on April 5, following days of clashes that led to numerous casualties on both sides.
