Azerbaijan's Armed Forces intensively shelled the north of the Line of Contact on April 23. As a consequence, Hayk Minasyan (1994) contract soldier of the NKR Defense Army was wounded at about 3:00pm. The NKR Defense Army told ArmInfo, in the period from 3:55pm up to 8:00pm local time on April 23, the Azerbaijani forces used 60mm and 82mm mortars (14 shells and 99 shells, respectively) against the Karabakh positions in the northeast, east, and north of the Line of Contact. The frontline units of the NKR Defense Army retaliated to repel the adversary.