“All last night and until the designated hour of the truce, there were battles.
Since 12:00, the truce has been generally observed, but the enemy from time to time resorts to provocations, ”Hovhannisyan quoted TASS as saying.
He also stated that the Ministry of Defense of Armenia will allow the bodies of servicemen killed in Karabakh to be taken away only in the presence of representatives of the Red Cross.
The Azerbaijani presidential administration also confirmed the fact that the fire had ceased.
On October 10, at 12:00 (11:00 Moscow time) local time, a ceasefire came into force in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani sides agreed on this earlier following a meeting in Moscow.
The parties announced a ceasefire "for humanitarian purposes for the exchange of prisoners of war and other detained persons and bodies of the dead."