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YEREVAN, KOMPAS.com – Fierce fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region continued on Saturday (3/10/2020).
This was raised by the official dairy authorities of both parties as reported by FLY, Saturday.
Armenian and Azerbaijani forces appear to have ignored calls for a ceasefire from the United States, France and Russia.
Armenian Defense Ministry officials say their forces have repelled a massive attack by Azerbaijan on the front lines.
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They also claim to have shot down three planes.
Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry denied that any aircraft were shot down and said that Armenian personnel had fired at civilian areas.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said his troops had seized a strategic village, Madagiz, on Saturday.
Casualties in the fierce fighting are reported to have risen by 150 people from both sides.
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The attack came after Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, was attacked by Azerbaijani troops, according to media reports.
Aliyev demanded the withdrawal of the Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh as the only way to end the fighting.
The two sides have previously rejected demands for a ceasefire in the disputed territory.
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In fact, the fighting has escalated in recent days and it is the bloodiest incident since 1990.
Armenian separatists took Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan in a bloody war in the 1990s that killed an estimated 30,000 people.
Talks to resolve the conflict have stalled since a ceasefire agreement was signed in 1994 between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Peace efforts in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group of the United States, France and Russia, collapsed in 2010.
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