STEPANAKERT. April 22 (Interfax) - The Azerbaijani Armed Forces continued to violate the truce throughout the contact line in the early hours of Friday, the press service of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Ministry told Interfax.
In all, more than 70 Azerbaijani violations using various types of small arms were observed, it said.
The Azerbaijani army fired an RPG-7 grenade launcher in the southeastern (Gadrut) sector, and a ZU-23-2 air defense launcher was used in the northeastern (Martakert) sector, the ministry said.
"Defense Army units are in control of the operative-tactical situation and continue to successfully accomplish their combat duty," the NKR Defense Ministry said.
Tensions in the Karabakh conflict zone abruptly escalated in the small hours of April 2. Hostilities engaging aircraft and artillery began. The sides traded accusations of the breach of ceasefire along the contact line, as well as claiming the adversary's substantial losses and limited losses of their own.
On April 5, Baku and Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, announced that an agreement had been reached to cease fire in the Karabakh conflict area from midday local time. Since then the sides have been daily trading accusations of multiple truce breaches.