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Aurimas Mockus, traveler and blogger visiting the capital of Armenia Delphi He told her that he had managed to visit one of those sad processions.
According to the traveler, dozens of soldiers are buried in these cemeteries every day alone.
“Some of them were not even 20 years old, young men … At least a few hundred soldiers were buried where I was today,” said A. Mockus.
According to him, because the soil is very hard, excavators no longer have time to dig holes, so the equipment used – excavators.
The Armenians themselves allude to the fact that the death toll may exceed the officially announced 2,000.
“As I left the cemetery, I went through the funeral crane again,” Mockus said.
A spokeswoman for the Armenian Ministry of Health, Alina Nikogosian, said over the weekend that the Azerbaijani side had just started the casualty exchange process.
“Currently, the conflicting parties cannot have definitive figures because the exchange process is still ongoing,” he said.
After nearly two months of fierce fighting, two former Soviet Caucasus republics, mediated by Russia, signed a peace agreement last week under which Yerevan agreed to hand over much of the territory occupied by Azerbaijani forces to Baku.
The Azerbaijani army does not publish 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.
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.
Such a controversial peace agreement with neighboring Azerbaijan enraged the people of Armenia: protests began in the country, demanding the resignation of the head of the Armenian government, Nikol Pashinian.
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