Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone conversations with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to discuss the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Kremlin said in a statement on Thursday, March 31.

"The development of the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh was discussed with an emphasis on solving practical problems to ensure security and stability in the region," the statement reads.

"The importance of the consistent implementation of all the provisions of the trilateral statements of November 9, 2020, January 11 and November 26, 2021 was reaffirmed."

Azerbaijan has broken into Nagorno-Karabakh, and the incursion has left three Armenian soldiers dead and at least 14 others injured. On March 24, Azerbaijan stormed into the zone of the responsibility of the Russian peacekeepers stationed in the area and is refusing to completely withdraw its forces from strategic heights.