BAKU (Sputnik) — The Armenian military has violated the ceasefire along the contact line in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 119 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 119 times in the past day along the entire line," the ministry said in a press statement.
On April 2, tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region with a predominantly Armenian population, escalated. Baku and Yerevan accused each other of provoking the hostilities, however, the sides succeeded in reaching a ceasefire agreement on April 5, which has been followed by near-daily reports of truce violations.
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.
