Armenian PM says more than 100 Armenian soldiers killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that more than 100 Armenian soldiers have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan since Monday.

Speaking to his country's parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 105 Armenian servicemen had been killed since Monday night in attacks he blamed on Azerbaijan.He also accused Azeri troops of occupying 10 sq km of Armenian territory this week and said he had now turned to Russia for military



assistance - a long-time ally of Armenia.

Azerbaijan says 50 of its own troops have also been killed in the fighting, which both sides blame on the other.

It is the latest in a series of long-running conflicts fought between the two former Soviet republics over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Russia and the US have each called for peace between the two countries.