Two Armenian soldiers killed in Karabakh clashes
At least two Armenian soldiers have been killed in separate exchanges of fire between Azerbaijani and Armenian border forces in the disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The defense ministry of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region announced on Wednesday that Azerbaijani armed forces attempted to attack Armenia’s defensive positions at the Karabakh frontline, engaging in a battle with Armenian troopers.
The ethnic-Armenian serviceman Nahapet Asatrian, 33, was killed in the process.
Separately, 35-year-old Armenian army soldier Arman Udumyan sustained fatal gunshot wounds when Azeri forces opened fire on Armenian army positions in Tavush region in northeastern Armenia.
Multiple confrontations between Baku and Yerevan over Nagorno-Karabakh left dozens of troops dead on both sides last year.
The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is largely populated by Armenians but located in Azerbaijan.
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave, which accounts for 16 percent of the Azerbaijan territory, in the early 1990s during a six-year war which lasted from February 1988 to May 1994.
The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace accord has never been inked and the dispute still remains unsettled.
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results.
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