Armenia lost at least 49 soldiers in the latest border clashes with Azerbaijan early on September 13, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said, amid international calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities between the two Caucasus archenemies.

There have been frequent flare-ups along their shared border since the end of the 2020 war between Yerevan and Baku over Azerbaijan"s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

“At 00:05 a.m. on Tuesday (September 13), Azerbaijan launched intensive shelling, with artillery and large-caliber firearms, against Armenian military positions in the direction of the cities of Goris, Sotk, and Jermuk”, - the Armenian Defense Ministry said.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry, in turn, accused Armenia of “large-scale subversive acts” near the districts of Dashkesan, Kelbajar, and Lachin on the border, adding that its army positions “came under fire, including from trench mortars”.