The death toll among Armenian troops in this week’s fighting has risen to 135 with many others wounded, Prime Minister Nicol Pashinyan said
An Armenian soldier fires an artillery shell during fighting with Azerbaijan's forces in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 29 2020. Picture: ARMENIA DEFENCE MINISTRY/REUTERS
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the situation remained “very tense” in separate calls with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron, his office said Friday. The death toll among Armenian troops in this week’s fighting has risen to 135 with many others wounded, Pashinyan told a government meeting.
Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other for starting the fighting that began in the early hours of Tuesday and spiralled into the worst confrontation since a 44-day war over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, which killed thousands of soldiers on both sides until Putin brokered a truce.
A fact-finding mission from the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization is in Armenia after Pashinyan formally invoked the defence pact and requested assistance from Moscow and other former Soviet republics in protecting its sovereignty.
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