The State Committee for the Affairs of Azerbaijani POWs, Missing Persons and Hostages stated that “in order to reaffirm its commitment to international humanitarian law and humanitarian values, Azerbaijan calls on Armenia for a ceasefire and is ready to unilaterally hand over about 100 bodies of Azerbaijani prisoners of war, missing persons and hostages” . The Armenian soldiers who died as a result of the failure of the provocation that our country has been subjected to over the past two days have been informed about this by the International Committee of the Red Cross.”

Earlier today, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that 105 members of the Armenian armed forces were killed in recent border clashes with the Azerbaijani army.

The authorities of Azerbaijan and Armenia fought the first war in the early 1990s, which killed 30,000 people, and then again launched a lightning strike in the fall of 2020 to take control of the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing about 6,500 people. and culminated in a Russian-brokered truce that provided for Armenia to relinquish large swaths of territory it controlled in exchange for Russia deploying a peacekeeping force of some 2,000 soldiers tasked with enforcing a fragile truce.

And this is not the first case in recent times when the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides exchange accusations of violating the ceasefire regime on the border.