A spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry says armed clashes on the border have stopped after a ceasefire agreement was reached with Azerbaijan with the help of Russia. Earlier, the Armenian government said in a statement that 15 of its soldiers had been killed in fresh clashes.
The Armenian government says at least 15 of its soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting, and Azerbaijani forces have captured 12 of them.
A spokesman for Azerbaijan’s military says only two soldiers were wounded in the latest fighting.
According to Russian media, President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pishinyan, while Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also held talks with Armenian and Azerbaijani Defense Ministers and asked them to immediately stop fighting and Asked to end the tension.
The latest clashes on the border between the two countries come a year after a year of fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, in which more than 6,500 people were killed. The war lasted for six weeks and then a peace agreement was reached through Moscow mediation and the war was over. However, Armenia had to leave a large area of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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