Friday, July 17 2020 12:15

ArmInfo.Yesterday and throughout the night, the enemy violated the ceasefire along the entire length of the Armenian state border. Artsrun Hovhannisyan,  head of the Ijevan Information and Crisis Center, said this at a  meeting with journalists on July 16.  

At the same time, he informed  that the ceasefire was violated more than 120 times from small arms  of various calibers, including large-caliber weapons, artillery was  not used. "The shelling was conducted along the entire perimeter of  the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border in the Tavush direction,  including Noyemberyan was fired upon, in addition, in the Gegharkunik  direction (2nd Army Corps), Nakhchivan direction (4th and 5th corps).  Overall, assessing the situation , I can say that the tension has  subsided, "Hovhannisyan said.

Referring to the condition of the wounded servicemen, he noted that  the situation has not changed; the condition of one is still  extremely difficult, but already stable.

To clarify that the Investigative Committee of Armenia reports about  30 wounded, meanwhile the Ministry of Defense says about 20,  Hovhannisyan said that there are no contradictions in this issue, and  in total 36 people were injured, but many of them were so  insignificant that they were provided with assistance on the spot.  and they returned to services. "As I already said, 10 servicemen are  in the hospital today, 5 are in serious condition," Hovhannisyan  said.

Speaking about the situation on the Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of  contact, he said that there were also shots there, including from  large-caliber weapons, but the situation is generally stable.

Hovhannisyan also said that the day before the Azerbaijani side had  resorted to another adventure, and the numbers of Armenian users  began to receive messages allegedly from the RA Ministry of Defense  about the need for donor blood for the wounded servicemen. In this  regard, he urged to be vigilant, not to believe in such provocations  and assured that the operators are already eliminating this problem.