ArmInfo. It is not news for Armenia that Azerbaijan periodically takes some kind of provocative actions, Armenian Defense Minister's Deputy Artsrun Hovhannisyan stated this in a conversation with ArmInfo correspondent, referring to the latest sabotage of the enemy on the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact.
At the same time, he found it difficult to tell whether this incident is connected with today's rally initiated by the Prime Minister of Armenia on the Republic Square. "It's hard for me to tell the main motives of these actions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, but it's not news for us that they periodically initiate actions on the border and on the contact line, both with Artsakh and Nakhchivan. But I can say one thing, all such actions, sabotages, will not remain unanswered. They will always receive a commensurate and painful response, "he said.
Asked to clarify whether it may be considered that today the reaction of the Armenian side to such provocations is more severe than it was a few months ago, Hovhannisyan stated that it is not him who should assess it. At the same time, the Spokesman expressed the conviction that the Armenian side has always adequately reacted to such actions of Baku, and the degree of rigidity should already be assessed by experts.
As ArmInfo informed earlier, the units of the Artsakh Defense Army stopped the attempt of the Azerbaijani sabotage group consisting of 15 people to penetrate into the territory of the republic, on the night of August 17. The enemy was noticed on time and thrown back to the starting positions. The NKR defense Army had no losses.