Azernews.Az

Armenian armed forces have broken ceasefire with Azerbaijan 22 times in numerous positions in the last 24 hours, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said on October 27.

Armenian armed forces, located near the villages of Yusifjanli of Aghdam district, Kuropatkino of Khojavend, Ashagi Veyselli, Garakhanbeyli of Fizuli, Mehdili of Jabrayil district, opened fire at the positions of Azerbaijani armed forces.

Azerbaijani positions also took fire from the positions located at the nameless heights of Khojavend and Fizuli districts.

The enemy was silenced with return fire.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by U.S., Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.