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The website of the Ministry of defense of Nagorno-Karabakh says that this picture shows Azerbaijan downed helicopter
12 18 Armenian and Azeri soldiers were killed during the fighting, which began in the night of Saturday in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"From our side were killed 18 soldiers, 35 people were injured", - Serzh Sargsyan said in a televised address, but did not specify whether it is the regular army of Armenia or the Karabakh militia.
The Azerbaijani side, according to official data, lost 12 soldiers killed, one downed a MI-24 helicopter and hitting mine tank.
The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan made mutual accusations in connection with the worsening of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Baku says Azerbaijani troops stationed in the conflict zone were fired from large-caliber guns. The Armenian authorities claim that the Azerbaijani side first opened fire with artillery, then use tanks and helicopters.
Both countries report dead and injured, including children.
"The Karabakh page" Russian service bi-Bi-si
12-year-old Gevorg Grigoryan from Stepanakert was wounded during a night attack
The Azerbaijani defense Ministry stated that the Armenian army lost six tanks, 15 artillery, and more than 100 dead and wounded.
However, the Armenian defense Ministry has denied these reports. Press Secretary of the Armenian defense Minister Artsrun Hovhannisyan called the misinformation and stated that they have nothing to do with reality.
"The tense situation on the southern direction of the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. On this specific direction continue fighting", - he added.
The website "Caucasian knot" reports that from Stepanakert to the contact line of troops has left some buses with volunteers and on television Nagorno Karabakh extends the call for men able to bear arms or to have experience fighting, to leave the conflict zone.
ISIS in Karabakh: Armenian severed head of a soldier
Azerbaijani users and groups actively spread in social networks photos of their soldiers, who happily scoff the corpse of the Armenian soldier, who died probably as a result of today's fighting.
"There is no military solution"
Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin expressed regret that the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone "again slid into armed confrontation", said his press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, adding that Putin "calls on the parties to the conflict for an immediate ceasefire and exercise restraint".
A similar appeal was addressed and the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, saying that the Russian side has already begun consultations with partners in the OSCE Minsk group in connection with the aggravation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to the statements of the parties, all night in the conflict zone the shooting was carried out. This burned car was shot in the Tartar district
Later the Minsk group co-chairs - representatives of Russia, USA and France also made a statement about Karabakh events.
"We strongly condemn the use of force and regret the senseless victims, including among civilians," - said, in particular, in the statement, urging "the parties to cease fire and to take all necessary measures to stabilize the situation."
"We reaffirm that there is no alternative to peaceful settlement of the conflict through negotiations, and that there is no military solution", - assured the OSCE.
It is reported that the head of the Russian defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu contacted their colleagues - defense Minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan and the Minister of defense of Azerbaijan Zakir Hasanov and discussed with them possible measures to stabilize the situation in the conflict zone.
The history of the conflict
The last major escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh with casualties occurred in December of last year
- In Karabakh for several centuries live near Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The Armenians are traditionally Christian, but in the region strongly influence and Muslim Turkic and Persian peoples.
- The decision of the Supreme Council of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous region to request the transfer from the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR in 1988 is considered the beginning of the Karabakh conflict.
Azeri cent prior to the war about a quarter of the population of the NKAO, were expelled from Karabakh and Armenia, and Azerbaijan were forced to flee hundreds of thousands of Armenians. After the capture by Armenian forces of Azerbaijani districts around Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's refugees reached almost one million.
- The UN has adopted several resolutions calling for the withdrawal of Armenian forces and the liberation of the occupied Azerbaijani districts in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- In 1994, with the mediation of the Moscow armistice was signed that ended active hostilities in the region, but left Karabakh and the surrounding regions of Azerbaijan under the control of Armenians. Peaceful settlement of the conflict is at an impasse after negotiations of leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2009. In recent years there have been several serious armed clashes on the contact line of the parties.
The word "Karabakh" is of Azerbaijani phrase meaning "black garden".
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