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The press service of Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) issued a statement in connection with intensive ceasefire violations by Azerbaijan using large-caliber weapons.

“To judge by incomparably intensive mortar and rocket strikes and gunfire from large caliber weapons carried out by the enemy on the Armenian-Azerbaijani line of contact, it can be said that Azerbaijan’s military and political leadership took on criminal tactics of moving the conflict settlement process from the peaceful negotiating table to а field of force.

“Mortar shelling of civilian settlements and attacks on the Armenian frontline units are becoming increasingly cynical and purposeful, which shows that the enemy aims to create a situation fraught with unforeseeable consequences by taking deliberate and provocative steps.

Due to the present situation, Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic once again calls attention of the international community, in particular international structures dealing with a peaceful resolution of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, to the destructive and provocative policy of official Baku and says that it is the Azerbaijani side that will bear responsibility for any consequences of the current situation,” the statement reads.