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Armenia tells Azerbaijan to brace for ‘HARSH RESPONSE’ as civilian bus hit & set on fireplace in cross-border strikes
Azerbaijani artillery and plane have pounded a army base in Armenia, and a civilian bus has been hit in a “drone strike,” the Armenian Protection Ministry reported, telling its rival to brace itself for a “harsh response.”
Azeri forces focused non-combatants within the small Armenian border city of Vardenis on Tuesday, in accordance with Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the Armenian Protection Ministry consultant. The official uploaded to social media what he stated was photographic documentation of the aftermath of a strike by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial car (UAV).
The photographs circulated on-line present the extent of the destruction. The protection official clarified that “fortuitously, nobody was damage.”
Based on the Armenian army, a military unit in Vardenis had additionally taken artillery fireplace from throughout the border. Azerbaijan insisted its troops have been responding to shelling coming from the exact same space and hitting the Azeri area of Dashkesan. Later within the day, President Ilham Aliyev stated no less than 10 civilians had been killed within the Armenian assaults.
The current developments seem to have raised the extent of ire in opposition to Azerbaijan in Yerevan. Baku ought to “brace for a harsh response,” Shushan Stepanyan, spokeswoman for the Protection Minister, warned.
Armenian troops “shall be compelled” to make use of high-power weaponry “meant for giant and indiscriminate destruction of manpower, and static and cellular property alike.” It is a like-for-like response to the Azeri forces’ use of “heavy flamethrower launchers, large-caliber artillery and ‘Smerch’ [multiple launch rocket systems],” she insisted.
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