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Azerbaijan: Seven soldiers killed in clashes with Armenia

Seven of his soldiers Azerbaijan were killed in clashes with its forces on Tuesday Of Armenia near his disputed area Nagorno Karabakh. Ten Azeri soldiers were also wounded in the clashes, the deadliest since the end of the war between Yerevan and Baku last year, according to a statement from the country’s Defense Ministry.

THE Armenia for her part she spoke of one dead soldier, 24 missing and 13 prisoners during these conflicts. Yerevan also announced that it had lost two military positions, which were occupied by Baku.

Clashes erupted yesterday, after weeks of escalating border tensions between the two countries which claim control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

On Tuesday night, Yerevan announced that it had been achieved truce after the mediation of Russia. Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other for the new cycle of violence.

These conflicts show how much the balance in the Caucasus region is fragile. These are the fiercest battles in the region since the end of a conflict last year, which lasted six weeks. In fact, despite the growth in the region of Russian troops who have undertaken to maintain peace and who have been in the region since November 2020 as part of the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiated by the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Last year’s conflicts cost the lives of more than 6,500 people, while Armenia was forced to cede to Azerbaijan many areas around Nagorno-Karabakh.

The mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mainly by Armenians, seceded, according to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, from Azerbaijan after the fall of the USSR, sparking a first war in the 1990s that killed at least 30 people. were displaced.

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