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The Baku Defense Ministry emphasized in a statement that “2,783 soldiers of the Azerbaijani armed forces died during the war,” adding that DNA analysis should establish the identity of 103 soldiers.
Another 100 Azerbaijani soldiers are missing, according to the statement.
It adds that the Azerbaijani soldiers “showed courage and heroism in the Great Patriotic War and deal devastating blows to the Armenian armed forces.”
Yerevan had previously announced that 2,317 Armenian soldiers had been killed in the conflict, which also claimed the lives of at least 93 Azerbaijanis and 50 Armenians.
During the fighting, up to 90,000 people fled the disputed Karabakh region. people – about 60 percent. population.
In late September, new clashes broke out between the forces of Baku and Yerevan, resuming the conflict between these neighboring Caucasian states that broke out decades ago over an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.
The fierce fighting lasted six weeks, despite efforts by France, Russia and the United States to persuade the parties to the conflict to declare a ceasefire. Hostilities ended on November 9, when Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement through Moscow.
The pact came when loyal Baku soldiers crushed separatist forces and threatened to attack Karabakh’s main city, Stepanakert.
The agreement has provoked joy among the people in Azerbaijan and anger in Armenia, where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is increasingly criticized for deciding to sign the document.
Under a peace agreement that put the future political status of Karabakh up in the air, Armenia lost parts of the enclave and seven contiguous districts it had occupied during the war of the 1990s.
Thus, Yerevan lost the territories it hoped to use as an asset in negotiations that could force Baku to recognize Karabakh independence.
The enclave now has nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers patrolling, including along the Lachin Corridor, a 60-kilometer highway that runs through the area connecting Stepanakert with Armenia.
Karabakh was separated from Baku during the war of the early 1990s, in which some 30,000 people died. people and tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis were forced from their homes.
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