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BAKU – Azerbaijan has received another shipment of military hardware from Russia and will send it to the areas near the frontline in the near future, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

“A planned delivery of the state-of-the-art Russian military equipment to Azerbaijan has been carried out in accordance with the intergovernmental agreement and within the framework of successfully developing military-technical cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. A large batch of modern weapons arrived at the port in Baku, will be sent to the frontline zone in the near future,” the Defense Ministry said on its website on Saturday.

“These weapons will strengthen the combat and maneuver capabilities of the forward-based units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces to defeat armored vehicles, engineering and fortification structures, low-speed air targets, military personnel and other military facilities of the enemy,” the ministry said.

“The delivery of Russian military equipment and weapons to Azerbaijan will continue,” it said.