No progress in efforts to approach downed helicopter – Armenian Defense Ministry
The Armenian side is still unable to approach the downed MI-24 helicopter, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan told Panorama.am.
Asked if Azerbaijani forces continue firing at the crash site of the helicopter, the spokesman said that in general, the situation is tense.
According to Hovhannisyan, the Artsakh authorities are working with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, but these efforts have yielded no result so far.
A MI-24 helicopter of the NKR Air Force was shot down on Wednesday in the airspace in the eastern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani border due to a ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces. The area where the helicopter was shot down was at a very short distance from the Line of Contact. The enemy opened heavy fire from guns of various calibers at the incident site.