As a result of the Azerbaijani firing of the Karabakh positions, a serviceman of the NKR Defense Army was wounded.

The press service of the NKR Defense Army reported that on March 3 at 11:10am Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire at the NKR positions in the north-eastern part of the contact line between the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces, as a result of which servicemen Hovhannes Avdalyan (born in 1991) got a minor gunshot wound. He was immediately taken to a military hospital.

Details of the incident are being clarified. An investigation is under way.