Nicole Pashinyan says Armenia has suffered "massive damage."
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has acknowledged that many Armenian soldiers have been killed in clashes with Azerbaijan over the occupation of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
However, Mr. Pashinyan claims that the Armenian army still holds control of the area.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Turkey and Russia have called on both countries to end the ongoing war.
The two countries have been at loggerheads over Nagorno-Karabakh for the past four decades. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as Azerbaijan. But it is controlled by ethnic Armenians.
The current violence between the two countries surrounding the region began on September 26. This is the bloodiest conflict between Nagorno-Karabakh in the last few decades. Hundreds of people on both sides have already died.
Although the two countries signed a ceasefire agreement mediated by Russia last week, it did not last long.
There was a bloody war between the two countries in the late 70's and early 90's over the occupation of the region. Although the two countries declared a ceasefire in 1994, they never reached a permanent peace agreement.
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What did the Prime Minister Pashinyan say?
In a speech broadcast on television on Wednesday, Mr. Pashinyan said Armenia had suffered "many casualties".
He said, "I pay my respects to all our victims, the martyrs, their families, guardians, especially the mothers of the martyrs. I consider their loss as a personal loss to me and my family."
"We all need to know that we are going through a difficult situation."
But Mr. "Despite the loss of manpower and equipment, the Armenian army is still in control and has inflicted heavy losses on the opposition," Pashinyan said.
"We have to win, we have to survive. We have to make our own history. And we're already making history. We're making our heroic battle stories, our epics," he said.
What's going on in that area?
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused Armenia of attacking their gas and oil pipelines.
"Armenia is trying to take control of our pipeline by attacking it," he told Turkish media Heberturk.
"If they try to take control of the pipeline there, I can say the consequences will be serious."
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation on Wednesday after the two countries clashed.
The Kremlin said in a statement that it had "discussed ways to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict peacefully through joint efforts to end the violence."
