10 Azerbaijani Soldiers Killed, Says Artsakh Defense Ministry

A Karabakh soldier at the border with Azerbaijan border

STAPANAKERT””Heavy fighting continued over the weekend along the border of Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, with Artsakh’s Defense Ministry announcing Monday that 10 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in sporadic fighting.

The Artsakh Defense Ministry also said that statements made by it Azerbaijani counterpart that seven Karabakh soldiers were killed were false adding that the Artsakh Army had repelled Azerbaijani attacks in the Akna region, which resulted in 10 dead and several wounded Azerbaijani soldiers.

This followed a week of heavy artillery attacks by Azerbaijani forces against targets in both Artsakh and Armenia, which left three civilians””majority of them elderly women””dead in Armenia’s Tavush region and four Karabakh soldiers dead along what is commonly known as the “line of contact.”