Armenian servicemen of the Nagorny Karabakh Regional Self-Defense Forces fire artillery shells towards Azeri forces from an outpost in the town of Martakert in Nagorny Karabakh on April 3. (Photo: AFP/VNA)

At the same time, Azerbaijan announced that it had destroyed 20 enemy combat vehicles.

The press service of the Ministry of Defense of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) said that during the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan has continuously increased the caliber of its weapons. On the early morning of April 5, the Azerbaijani armed forces used the Smerch rocket artillery system for the first time.

This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by the press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry, Artsrun Ovhannisyan.

For its part, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that over the past few days it had destroyed 20 military vehicles and killed 70 enemy soldiers. In addition, Baku announced that it had destroyed the enemy's military command post.

Earlier, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry ordered the army to prepare to shell the capital of Nagorny Karabakh, Stepanakert.

The ministry said that would happen in case Armenia did not stop its attacks. The NKR Defense Ministry vowed to "respond in kind" if Azerbaijan attacked Stepanakert./.

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