One more Karabakh soldier killed by Azeri shelling

Twenty-year old Hovsep Andreasyan received a deadly wound on its post in a military unit in the northeast of the line of contact. An investigation into the case is under way, according to the report. 

NKR’s ministry of defense shares the grief and expresses support to Andreasyan’s family and friends, the press office said. 

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by succeeding referendum. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. 

Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year. –0--