Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Tuesday that at least 49 of the country's soldiers had been killed in clashes along the border with Azerbaijan after a sharp escalation in hostilities which prompted Russia and the United States to call for restraint.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of shelling several settlements along the border between the two countries over the past month, and that it thwarted a "large-scale military provocation" by Armenia.

Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have blamed each other for overnight clashes along the border, in a resumption of decades-old hostilities linked to the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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