Units of Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Photo: https://mod.gov.az/ru/foto-arhiv-045/

30 March 2018, 09:00

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of machine gun shelling

Within the last 24 hours, units of the Armenian Armed Forces have violated the ceasefire for 95 times at different frontline sections, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

On March 29-30, during the shelling, Armenian servicemen used heavy machine guns to attack the territories controlled by Azerbaijan, says the website of the Azerbaijani MoD, adding that Azerbaijani positions were shelled in the villages of Kemerli, Gyzylgadjyly, Djafarli and Bala Djafarli of the Gazakh District, and in the villages of Agbulag and Mundjuglu of the Tovuz District.

So far, the MoDs of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have not published any response statements on their websites. At the same time, Nagorno-Karabakh is regularly accusing Azerbaijan of shelling its positions. Thus, on March 24, it reported 150 acts of shelling from the Azerbaijani side during March 18-24.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

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