Azerbaijani armed forces have liberated 2,000 hectares of land from occupants during the April clashes, military sources told on Wednesday.

According to the sources, the Azerbaijani army also regained control over some strategic heights, which allow to keep a large part of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh under surveillance.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan told reporters on May 17 that the country’s armed forces lost 800hectares of the 800,000ha territory which they hold for security reasons, adding that the lost territories were not of any strategic or tactical importance.