"Interfax" writes that the parties have started a new round of negotiations.

They take place in the village of Kulkand, in the Saghdi region of Tajikistan.

Saturday night passed without any major incidents after the ceasefire agreement reached during the day.

On the morning of September 17, the parties announced the resumption of shooting at the border, accusing each other of violating agreements, the Kyrgyz service of Radio Svaboda reports.

On September 17, the representative of the Kyrgyz president in the Batken region, Abdikarim Alimbaev, said that all the villages captured by the Tajik side have been released.

The President of Kyrgyzstan Sadir Zhaparov expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and noted that Kyrgyzstan will not give up "a single square meter of its land and will firmly defend national interests."

The situation on the border of the two countries sharply escalated on September 14: skirmishes began between soldiers in three places in the Batken district of the Kyrgyz region of the same name.

The parties put the responsibility for another round of confrontation on each other.

The Kyrgyz border service claims that on Friday, the Tajik side began shelling its border units.

In Bishkek, they claim that the Tajik side used tanks, armored personnel carriers, BMPs, mortars, as well as rocket salvo systems to strike, including on populated areas.

The border service of Tajikistan said that the Kyrgyz side struck several Tajik settlements with helicopters and drones on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan, 24 people became victims of the clashes, more than 100 people were injured.

More than 136,000 residents were evacuated.

There is no official information about the dead and wounded citizens of Tajikistan.

According to "Asia Plus" agency, more than ten people were killed.

Almost half of the approximately 970 kilometers of the joint border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is still not officially demarcated, and conflicts and skirmishes periodically occur against this background.