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Soldier Killed in Karabakh by Azeri Fire, Officials Say

Grigor K Yeghoyan, a 20-year-old conscript soldier of a northeastern military unit of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Army, was fatally wounded at around 10 am on Thursday as a result of a ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the NKR defense ministry reports.

Note, this is the ninth death in the Armed Forces of Armenia and the NKR Defense Army since the beginning of the year; three of them occurred as a result of ceasefire violations.