People take part in a procession marking the Armenian nationwide mourning to commemorate those killed in a military conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Yerevan, Armenia December 19, 2020. Vahram Baghdasaryan/Photolure via REUTERS
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Armenians marched through the capital Yerevan on Saturday to commemorate the soldiers killed in a six-week conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in which Azerbaijan made significant territorial gains.
The conflict and the fatalities on the Armenian side have increased pressure on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whom the opposition accuses of mishandling the conflict by accepting a Russian-brokered ceasefire last month, to resign.
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