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“According to our data, the death toll on both sides is almost 2,000, that is, the total death toll is already close to 5,000,” Putin said on television.
The latest officially confirmed death toll is less than a thousand.
Azerbaijani separatists and Armenians who control Nagorno-Karabakh have been involved in the conflict over this mountainous province since the war in the 1990s, which claimed some 30,000 lives. lives.
A ceasefire was agreed to earlier this month in Moscow after 11 hours of talks, but the agreement had almost no effect on the fighting.
The second ceasefire agreement reached on Saturday almost collapsed.
Putin: the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh started with crimes against the Armenian people
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenians and Azerbaijan was originally ethnic in nature and began with crimes against the Armenian people. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on Thursday.
“This conflict not only started as a cross-border conflict and the struggle for the territories, it started as an ethnic confrontation. Sadly, it is a fact that Sumgaite and then Nagorno-Karabakh were subjected to heinous crimes against the Armenian people. We have to have all this. taken into account in a complex way, “Putin said.
According to the Russian president, “such a situation, when a large part of Azerbaijan’s territory has been lost, cannot continue forever.” “For many years, we have been proposing various options to resolve this crisis in order to stabilize the situation for a long-term historical perspective,” Putin added. – Believe me, it was a tense work of rapprochement (parties in conflict). Sometimes it seemed like one more small step, and we found a solution. Unfortunately, that did not happen and today we have a conflict in its worst form. And the essence of the tragedy is that people are dying. “
The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh became complicated on September 27, and clashes broke out in the disputed area. Military state imposed on Azerbaijan and Armenia, announced the mobilization. Both parties report deaths and injuries, including civilians.
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh began in February 1988, when the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian Autonomous Region declared its withdrawal from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In September 1991, the establishment of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was announced at the Stepanakert Autonomous Administrative Center. In the wake of the military conflict, Azerbaijan lost control of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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