Eight soldiers killed in border clashes in Azerbaijan and Armenia Conflict News

The exchanges in Baku and Yerevan are being exchanged as it threatens the fragile ceasefire agreement sparked across the shared border.

Seven members of Azerbaijan’s service were killed and 10 others wounded in clashes with Armenian troops on the country’s shared border, according to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense.

Armenian officials reported one dead and said 13 soldiers were captured on Tuesday, and another 24 were missing.

Both sides accuse the other of starting quarrels.

The Armenian Defense Ministry said that the Azerbaijani military fired on Armenian positions.

The Azerbaijani government has accused Armenia of a “large-scale provocation”.

These clashes were the fiercest fighting between the two Soviet-era nations since they waged a six-week war in the Upper Karabakh region last year, killing more than 6,500 people in the conflict.

The dead on Tuesday have sparked fears of another major resurgence in their territorial conflict.

In battle he stopped on Tuesday evening Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke on the phone with members of Armenians and Azerbaijanis and asked them to stop.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan also spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the border situation.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been stranded in a decades-long conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan but under the control of Armenian-backed Armenian ethnic groups since the end of the war in 1994.

Russia’s war over last year’s territory ended with a peace agreement with an Armenian military base in November and the deployment of nearly 2,000 peacekeepers.

Turkey sided with Azerbaijan and reclaimed parts of the land it had lost in a previous conflict.

The Russian-led truce allowed Nagorno-Karabakh, which was controlled by Azerbaijani-backed residents, to regain control of large areas in the area.

But tensions on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border have been steadily rising again since May, when Armenia protested that Azerbaijani troops had entered its territory.

Azerbaijan insists that its troops were deployed to its territory in areas where there is no border. The clashes have since been reported.

On Monday, Pashinyan accused Azerbaijani troops of violating the border between the two countries and removed his defense minister from office for the incident.
Reports of the fighting, including the use of artillery, came on Tuesday from both countries.

The Armenian Security Council has called on Russia to help protect the country’s territorial integrity.