An Azeri soldier was killed on the Nagorno Karabakh contact line on Tuesday, May 17, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said.

Karabakh’s Defense Ministry said earlier that an army conscript of its own, Khachatur Harutyunyan (b. 1996), received a fatal gunshot wound on May 17, at around 12:50 am, as a result of Azeri violations.

The Azerbaijani army violated the Nagorno Karabakh ceasefire on the night of May 16-17, using various caliber firearms and an infantry fighting vehicle, as well as 60-mm mortars and automatic grenade launchers. Especially intense violations were registered in the southeastern (Hadrut) and eastern (Martuni) directions of the contact line.

As the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministry notes, Azerbaijan took steps to destabilize the situation on the contact line during a meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Vienna.