A senior Armenian official said on Wednesday that a ceasefire agreement has been reached with Azerbaijan after two days of violence over the countries' decades-long dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

155 soldiers from both sides were killed in the fighting.

There was no word from Azerbaijan about a truce to halt the deadliest exchanges between the countries since 2020.

Russia is the leading diplomatic force in the region. Russia maintains 2,000 peacekeepers there. Russia is the leading diplomatic force in the region, with 2,000 peacekeepers

Maintained by Russia. Moscow brokered an agreement that ended the war in 2020. The war is called the Second Karabakh War. Hundreds of people died.

"Thanks to the intervention of the international community, an agreement on a ceasefire was reached." Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigorian told Armenian Television.

Hours before Grigoryan's announcement, Armenia's Defense Ministry reported that the shelling had ended, but made no mention of the ceasefire agreement.

Both sides blame each other for the new clashes.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan earlier told parliament that 105 Armenian soldiers had been killed since violence began this week.
Azerbaijan reported 50 military deaths on the first day of fighting.

Grigory Karasin, a senior member of the upper house of the Russian parliament, told the media that the truce was achieved through Russia's diplomatic efforts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Pashinyan. Putin appealed for calm after the outbreak of violence and urged other countries to exercise restraint on both sides.

Addressing parliament, Pashinyan said he had appealed to the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization to help restore its territorial integrity.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been fighting for decades over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region recognized as part of Azerbaijan.

Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyar Hovhannisyan said the clashes could turn into a war — the second largest armed conflict in the former Soviet Union, with Russia's forces concentrated in Ukraine.

Azerbaijan accused Armenia, which is in a military alliance with Moscow, where a Russian military base is located, of shelling its military units.