Turkey's government says a claim by an Armenian official that a Turkish jet shot down an Armenian fighter jet is 'absolutely untrue'.
and have blamed each other for sparking fierce clashes that erupted on Sunday and have since caused nearly 100 confirmed deaths.
The UN Security Council was scheduled to meet Tuesday for an emergency meeting on the escalation, but neither side showed any sign of standing down.Both Azerbaijan's Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan vowed to continue fighting on Tuesday, their armies claiming to have dealt heavy blows to enemy forces.
Azerbaijan said its military had repelled an Armenian counter-attack and destroyed a motorised column, an artillery unit and, later, an entire motorised infantry regiment. An Armenian soldier who was allegedly wounded during military clashes with Azerbaijani armed forces is being carried on stretcher, 29 September 2020.The fighting between majority-Muslim Azerbaijan and Christian Armenia has raised fears of a wider conflict involving regional powers Turkey and Russia.
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