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Heavy fights continued today mainly in the northern and southern directions of the Nagorno Karabakh contact line, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, official representative of the Defense Ministry said at a briefing on Friday.

In Hovhannisyan's words, the Armenian Armed Forces carried out mainly defensive operations, and in certain areas operations of different nature.

With all that, throughout the day the Armenian forces have repelled all attacks of the adversary.

"As of now, the adversary has suffered 540 losses in manpower, 700 injured, lost 45 armored vehicles, 6 aircrafts, most of which were hit not in the air, 3 helicopters and 6 UAVS," said Hovhannisyan.

"Our troops demonstrate exceptional mastery and insane courage," said Hovhannisyan. He reminded that the Azerbaijani armed forces target civilian infrastructure and population through multiple rocket launchers as a result of which residential buildings are damaged and numerous civilian casualties are reported.