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Armenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire with Azerbaijan 102 times by using 60 and 82 mm caliber mortars in various parts of the contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies in the last 24 hours, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported on December 22.

Azerbaijani positions underwent fire from the positions located near the villages of Talish, Gulustan of Goranboy district, Goyarkh, Chileburt, Yarimja of Terter, Shikhlar, Novruzlu, Javahirli, Kengerli, Sarijali, Shuraabad, Yusifjanli, Nemirli of Agdam district, Kuropatkino of Khojavend, Horadiz, Gorgan, Ashagi Seyidahmadli of Fizuli and Mehdili of Jabrayil district.

Another ceasefire violation came from the positions located on the nameless heights of Goranboy, Khojavend, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts.

Azerbaijani armed forces carried out 110 strikes on enemy positions.

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, more than 4,000 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled. The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

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