Armenia reports 2 deaths in clashes with Azerbaijan

Two Armenian troops were killed in clashes with Azerbaijani forces in the past two days, News.am reported, citing the Armenian Ministry of Defense.

Artsrun Hovhanisyan, a spokesman for the ministry, said one of the soldiers was killed in Nagorno-Karabakh on June 19. The other died in Armenia’s Ararat region bordering Azerbaijan’s autonomous region of Naxcivan on June 20.

Hovhanisyan didn’t give the names of the servicemen, only saying that they were killed by enemy fire.

That brings to four the total number of Armenian deaths this month alone. 

Two Armenian soldiers – Andranik Egoyan, 26, and Boris Gasparyan, 22 – had been killed on the border with Naxcivan on June 5.

Armenia captured nearly one-fifth of Azerbaijan's internationally-recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding districts, in a war in the early 1990s. 

Large-scale hostilities ended with a ceasefire in 1994 but no peace agreement has been signed.

Azerbaijan has said it reserves the right to use military force to regain control of its territory should peace talks mediated by Russia, the US and France fail.

Bakudaily.az