"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday questioned the
role of Russian
peacekeepers in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh after a new flare-up left three soldiers dead.
peacekeepers in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh after a new flare-up left three soldiers dead.
Pashinyan's rare criticism of Moscow came after tensions
escalated on Wednesday in the disputed mountainous region, which is
mainly populated by ethnic Armenians.
The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars -- in the 1990s and in 2020 -- over Nagorno-Karabakh.
In the aftermath of the latest war, Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had controlled for decades.
Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the fragile truce but tensions persist despite the ceasefire agreement." VOA
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