Armenian army should be ready for any developments without losing vigilance, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said in a Facebook live broadcast, answering the question of a citizen referring to the situation on the frontline.=
Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia Arpine Hovhannisyan addressed a letter to US Congresswoman Jackie Speier and member of the House of Representatives Tulsi Gabbard over the U.S.-made helicopters “Bell 412” showing up in a military parade in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime 150 times on Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line in the period of June 17-23, during which over 1500 bullets were fired at the Armenian border guards from different caliber weapons, using also hand-held anti-tank grenades in the eastern and northern sections.
Russia, together with the other OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries, the USA and France, works in the direction of solving the issues aimed at the settlement of Karabakh conflict, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrtov announced in a meeting with reporters after talks with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Azerbaijan has become noticeably active in the frontline, which has different manifestations in different periods of time: equipment movement, build-ups, active engineering works, attempts to psychologically influence the Armenian and Artsakh societies and propaganda will all possible targets.
Azerbaijani forces have downed an Artsakh recon UAV as it was carrying out a monitoring flight around 11:20, June 19 in the south-eastern part of the line of contact, the Artsakh military said.
Armenia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan says the Azerbaijani media reports on capturing 11,000 hectares of land in the Nakhivejan section are disinformation.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan visited military positions of Artsakh’s eastern section together with President Bako Sahakyan.
Azerbaijani forces have made around 250 individual ceasefire violations in the line of contact with Artsakh from June 10 to June 16, firing more than 2500 rounds at positions of Artsakh, the defense ministry of Artsakh said in a statement.
After the first match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Moscow, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin introduced Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to one another.
