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Azerbaijan’s President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev visited the wounded servicemen who are treated at the Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Defense Ministry on April 5.

The head of state met with the soldiers who were wounded in the fighting on the line of contact.

Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said part of the servicemen who heroically fought and were wounded while repulsing the Armenian provocation on the line of contact were brought to this hospital.

All necessary measures have been taken to ensure their treatment. The staff of the hospital are tirelessly working day and night to ensure their swiftest possible recovery.

President Aliyev met with the families of the martyred and wounded servicemen.

Long-simmering tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan flared again on April 2 when the Armenian side began to shell the Azerbaijani positions and settlements along the frontline.

To protect civilian population, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched counter attacks and repulsed the enemy forces back. Six Armenian tanks, 15 gun mounts and reinforced engineering structures have been destroyed and more than 100 Armenian servicemen were wounded and killed during the shootouts.

Twelve servicemen of the Azerbaijani armed forces heroically died, one Mi-24 helicopter was shot down and one tank damaged by a mine.

Despite Azerbaijan's decision on unilateral suspension of the counter-attacks and response measures in the territories occupied by Armenia, the Armenian Armed Forces resumed shelling of Azerbaijani positions along the line of contact on the night of April 4.

As a result of the counter-attack, Azerbaijan’s Armed Forces neutralized up to 170 servicemen and 12 units of armored vehicles of the Armenian side

During the counter-attack carried out by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, up to 70 people and around 20 military equipment of Armenia were destroyed from April 4 to the morning of April 5.

The loss of the Azerbaijani army was 16 people in the past two days.

Realizing that their attempt to regain lost positions in the Khojavend-Fuzuli and Terter-Aghdere direction does not give any result, the Armenian army continues to shell villages located near the frontline and tries to destroy the infrastructure of Azerbaijan's frontier regions.