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“To date, the forensic examination service has examined the bodies of 2,317 dead soldiers, including unidentified ones,” a spokeswoman for the Armenian Ministry of Health, Alina Nikogosian, wrote on her Facebook account.
The spokeswoman noted that the Azerbaijani side had just started the process of exchanging casualties.
“Currently, the conflicting parties cannot have definitive figures because the exchange process is still ongoing,” he said.
The health ministry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic reported 1,383 deaths on Friday.
After nearly two months of fierce fighting, two former Soviet Caucasus republics, mediated by Russia, signed a peace agreement this week under which Yerevan agreed to hand over much of the territory occupied by Azerbaijani forces to Baku.
The Azerbaijani army is not providing information on its dead soldiers, but the total number of victims of the conflict is believed to be much higher than previously reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that more than 4,000 people were killed and some 8,000 injured in the conflict.
At least 143 civilians have died in the clashes.
According to Putin, tens of thousands of people were forced from their homes and “civil infrastructure and many cultural objects” were destroyed.
Under the peace agreement, Azerbaijani forces will maintain control of the areas occupied during the conflict, including the second-largest city, Shushah, and Armenia agrees to withdraw its forces from much of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions in time.
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