Armenia said Friday that at least 136 people died in border clashes with Azerbaijan this week, bringing the overall toll to more than 200 following the countries’ worst fighting in two years, IgbereTV reports
Both sides accuse each other of provoking the clashes, which erupted on Tuesday and ended with international mediation overnight on Thursday.
The Caucasus neighbours have fought two wars — in 2020 and in the 1990s — over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave.
Analysts say this week’s escalation has largely undone recent EU efforts to bring Baku and Yerevan closer to a peace agreement.
“For the moment, the number of dead is 135,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a cabinet meeting on Friday.
“Unfortunately, it is not the final figure. There are also many wounded.”
Armenia’s rights ombudsperson, Kristina Grigoryan, later said one civilian was also killed and six wounded in shelling by Azerbaijani forces.
“Azerbaijan targeted peaceful residents,” she said — a claim which Baku flatly denies
