Five years ago, on April 1-2, 2016, the April war started. The Azerbaijani armed forces unexpectedly launched an attack along the entire Artsakh-Azerbaijani border. Particularly hot battles took place in the south-north-eastern directions.
On April 5, in Moscow, through the mediation of the Chief of General Staff of Russia, the Chiefs of General Staffs of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Armed Forces achieved a verbal ceasefire agreement.