AFP, yerevan: Two ethnic Armenian soldiers have been killed in a new upsurge in fighting between Azerbaijani forces and separatists from the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh, the separatist statelet said on Tuesday.
"On the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Karabakh forces, the enemy violated a ceasefire 80 times using all types of artillery and armoured vehicles," said the defence ministry of the breakaway region, claiming it had also inflicted casualties on Azerbaijani forces.
A spokesman for Azerbaijan's defence ministry, Vagif Dyargakhly, said however that no one from his country had died. He said that Armenian forces had attacked the Azeri town of Terter and the village of Gapanly in the small hours of Tuesday, using mortars, howitzers and multiple rocket launchers and that Azerbaijan had to retaliate by attacking the enemy's positions.
 "In the future the military and political leadership of Armenia will be responsible for any event that happens on the frontline," Dyargakhly added.