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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, wherever they person been stationed arsenic peacekeepers since nan extremity of a warfare successful 2020, officials of some countries said Wednesday.
In a convention telephone pinch journalists, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed reports of nan withdrawal but did not springiness further details. Hikmet Hajiyev, nan caput of overseas argumentation successful Azerbaijan’s statesmanlike administration, besides confirmed nan withdrawal, saying it was agreed to by some countries.
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Hajiyev did not opportunity why nan forces were being withdrawn, but their beingness appeared superfluous aft Azerbaijan regained afloat power of nan region past year.
Russian peacekeepers' vehicles are parked astatine a checkpoint connected nan roadworthy to Shusha successful nan separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, connected Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson said connected Wednesday, April 17, 2024, that Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan's Karabakh region, wherever they person been stationed arsenic peacekeepers since nan extremity of nan warfare successful 2020. (Sergei Grits/AP Photo)
The Karabakh region had been nether nan power of taste Armenians until a warfare successful 2020 that resulted successful Azerbaijan regaining power of parts of nan region.
That warfare ended pinch a Russia-brokered cease-fire that called for placing astir 2,000 peacekeeping troops successful nan parts of Karabakh that were still held by Armenians. The forces' duties were to see ensuring free transition connected nan sole roadworthy connecting Karabakh pinch Armenia.
But Azerbaijan began blocking nan roadworthy successful precocious 2022, alleging Armenians were utilizing it for weapons shipments and to smuggle minerals, and nan Russian forces did not intervene.
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After months of progressively dire nutrient and medicine shortages successful Karabakh owed to nan blockade, Azerbaijan launched a lighting blitz successful September 2023 that forced nan Karabakh Armenian authorities to capitulate aft 1 time successful negotiations mediated by Russian forces.
Almost each of Karabakh's 50,000 taste Armenian residents fled nan region wrong days.
