On July 26, Azerbaijan undertook a reconnaissance-in-force towards the northern and north-eastern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani Line of Contact.
The NKR Defense Ministry announced that thanks to the operative actions by the defense army’s front-line units, the infiltrators were discovered in time and driven back to their primary positions, suffering losses and leaving behind a large quantity of arms and equipment. Unfortunately, as a result of the operation, serviceman Khachatour Levoni Badasyan, born in 1994, was fatally wounded. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh shares the great sorrow of this loss and offers its support to Badasyan’s family and fellow servicemen.
On the night of July 25, Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire and fired on several villages in the Tavush Region, including Nerkin Karmiraghbyur, Aygepar, Movses, and Chinari. On July 26, RA Ministry of Defense spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan told reporters that the Armenian side responded only to regular firing. “Fortunately the Armenian side does not have any losses or injuries, they have casualties, which we cannot say anything about,” he stated.
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