Azerbaijan: Armenia Violates Karabakh Ceasefire 118 Times Over Last 24 Hours

The Armenian military has violated the ceasefire along the contact line in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 118 times over the past 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said Sunday.

Azerbaijan does not recognize the ethnically Armenian self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and considers the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army to be a part of the Armed Forces of Armenia.

"The Defense Ministry says that Armenian armed forces, using heavy machine guns, violated the ceasefire 118 times along various stretches of the frontline in last 24 hours," the ministry's press service said.

The violence in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on April 2 last year. Baku and Yerevan accused each other of provoking hostilities that led to multiple deaths on each side. A ceasefire was agreed on several days later on April 5, yet hostilities continued.

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