Casualties, wounded reported among Azerbaijani, Armenian soldiers
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – On Wednesday, Azerbaijan announced the killing of seven of its soldiers during battles against the Armenian soldiers near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
Azerbaijan Defense Ministry said, in a statement, that ten other soldiers were wounded during the battles.
This battles are the fiercest since the last year war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has ended with the latter taking control over the enclave.
“Fatalities and wounded” among Armenian forces were reported and Azeri forces had captured several Armenian troops as well as “two military positions,” France Press cited Armenia’s defense ministry as saying yesterday.
The Armenian forces have lost control over two military posts.
Yerevan announced a truce with her opponent, Baku, after Russian mediation.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister of the Russia, Sergei Shoigu, made two separate phone calls, yesterday, with his Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts calling on them to stop actions provoking further escalation of the situation between the two countries.
Nagorno-Karabakh, known as Artsakh, is a mountainous region officially recognized as part of Azerbaijan, though it has a predominately Armenian population and is a de facto independent country which calls itself the Republic of Artsakh. The last year fighting in late September 2020 is the fiercest since the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Artsakh’s declaration of its autonomy from Azerbaijan.