/By Azernews/

By Nazrin Gadimova

After Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement was reached on April 5, the situation on the contact line of troops of the Armenian and Azerbaijani armies has again aggravated.

The Defense Ministry reported that the Armenian military units have shelled Azerbaijan’s Terter district, including Gapanli village on April 26 from 01:05 to 04:25 (UTC/GMT +4 hours). The enemy used 82-mm and 120-mm mortars, 122-mm howitzers D-30 and D?-21 multiple rocket launchers. Given the situation, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces inflicted strikes on enemy’s positions, according to the ministry.

The criminal military and political leadership of Armenia bears responsibility for any incident that can occur on the frontline, the ministry believes.

Yerevan launched military operations shortly after Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's statement on impossibility of resolving the long-lasting Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the peaceful process. "The war can break out at any moment and there is a little prospect of talks to resolve the conflict," he said in his interview with Bloomberg.

Baku has repeatedly accused Yerevan of violating truce and targeting civilians ever since the ceasefire agreement was reached between the parties to the conflict that emerged as a result of Armenia’s aggressive policy towards Azerbaijan.

Despite Azerbaijan has urged the Armenian side to sit at the negotiations table, Yerevan has constantly refused to act in a sensible way. Armenia has once again shown its true face after Sargsyan said that it is ‘unreasonable’ for Armenia to resume peace talks with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory, which includes Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions.

Emerged as a result of Armenian provocations on April 2, the so-called ‘four-day-war’ led to numerous causalities from the both sides. Immediately after the escalation of the crisis, Russia, as the co-chairing country of the OSCE Minsk Group, has resumed negotiations over the conflict.

However, despite Moscow's numerous efforts, Yerevan stated that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is closely cooperating with the both sides, has not offered any new proposals. That succeeded a promising statement by the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova, saying Lavrov has prepared some new groundwork. "The minister never sits at the negotiation table empty-handed," she emphasized.

This progress with the peace processes over Nagorno-Karabakh conflict clearly demonstrates that the Armenian leadership does not want the conflict to be settled at all. Sargsyan in particular stressed there is no place for Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone to separate the two sides.

Russia, in turn, believes that the situation in the region is unstable.

“The situation around Nagorno-Karabakh is “very fragile,” Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for the Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters at a conference on April 24.

However, Moscow ejects any military solution to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. “Moscow stands for the strict observance of agreements on permanent ceasefire from 1994 and 1995 on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” Lavrov said as part of his visit to Yerevan.