Azerbaijan confirmed the death of Senior Lieutenant Mollayev Abdulla Molla oğlu, aged 27, APA news agency reports citing the country's Defense Ministry.

Having sustained injuries, the officer underwent surgery, but died shortly afterwards.

According to the report, the serviceman was wounded “in the rival's shelling.”

According to some sources, two other servicemen were wounded on Saturday, December 5, in Tartar region of the contact line with Nagorno Karabakh.

Armenian and Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministries reported on the recent upsurge of Azerbaijani ceasefire violations, with an Armenian soldier killed and another one wounded as a result.

Both Ministries vowed retaliation, declaring that Azerbaijani authorities would bear the whole responsibility.