ArmInfo. At night, the battles on the line of contact of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani troops were of a local nature, but from the early morning the fighting along the entire length resumed and became more intense, representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said this during a briefing.
He recalled that an hour earlier, the Artsakh Defense Army had already reported on the defeat of an Azerbaijani helicopter that fell on the territory of neighboring Iran. The representative of the RA Ministry of Defense asked for forgiveness from the Iranian side that such incidents occur as a result of the fighting.
At the same time, Hovhannisyan stressed that all the initiatives of the enemy failed, the attacks were unsuccessful and thanks to the competent actions of the Armenian units, the enemy was thrown back. "The enemy's manpower losses are estimated at 300-350 people, about 600 wounded, three helicopters, six UAVs, one Smerch system were shot down," Hovhannisyan said.
Touching upon the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border, he noted that there was tension in different areas, but in the direction of Vardenis the situation is relatively calm.