Azerbaijani forces fired at a farmer who was working on his tractor in the Hatsi village of Artsakh’s (Nagorno Karabakh) Martuni region, local police said.

The farmer, identified as I. Abrahamyan, a resident of Hatsi village, contacted law enforcement agencies and said that around 1 p.m. local time on Friday, January 6, while working in his Belarus 82-1 tractor in the field he came under automatic small arms fire from an Azerbaijani military position nearby.

The Martuni police department reported the incident to the Russian peacekeepers, who on Wednesday claimed that they were complying with their mandate and were conducting round the clock monitoring of positions, including in Martuni.

The Friday attack came on the 26th day of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor - the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the rest of the world.