Armenia says 49 soldiers killed in attacks by Azerbaijan

Armenia says 49 soldiers killed inside attacks by Azerbaijan

MOSCOW (AP) — Forty-nine Armenian soldiers have been killed inside nighttime attacks by Azerbaijan, the country's main minister said Tuesday. Azerbaijan resonded that it had been retaliating following Armenian attacks.

Armenian main minister Nikol Pashinyan said inside Parliament that Azerbaijani forces attacked concerning fifty per cent of a dozen points, the report agency Interfax reported.

Azerbaijan's overseas management dividing said inside a statement that Armenian forces had fired on armed force positions inside trio districts of the country with every one other accompanied by that Armenian saboteurs planted mines inside the areas. It said Azerbaijani forces suffered unspecified casualties with every one other accompanied by that "definitive retaliatory measures were taken."

Azerbaijan with every one other accompanied by Armenia have been locked inside a decades-old dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is small portion of Azerbaijan nevertheless has been under the jurisdiction of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended inside 1994.

During a six-week war inside 2020 that killed additional than 6,600 people, Azerbaijan reclaimed large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh with every one other accompanied by surrounding areas that had been controlled for decades by the Armenia-backed separatists.

Armenia says 49 soldiers killed inside attacks by Azerbaijan