ArmInfo. More than 1.3 thousand refugees returned from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh during November 19 under the control of Russian peacekeepers. Official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, announced this on November 20 during a briefing.
"On November 19, 2020, under the control of Russian peacekeepers, another 1,382 refugees returned to Nagorno-Karabakh from the territory of the Republic of Armenia," Konashenkov said. According to a representative of the military department, since November 14, Russian peacekeepers have ensured the safe return of more than 4,400 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh.
As Konashenkov clarified, Russian peacekeepers provide maximum assistance to local authorities in restoring peaceful life.
Konashenkov also said that engineering units of the Russian armed forces are helping Karabakh civilians to restore civilian infrastructure damaged during the hostilities. "Russian peacekeepers provide maximum assistance to local authorities in restoring peaceful life. Engineering units of the peacekeeping forces are helping to restore traffic, electricity, water and heat supply to social facilities and residential buildings," Konashenkov said.
He recalled that an Inter-Departmental Center for Humanitarian Response is being formed in the city of Stepanakert to solve the entire complex of humanitarian problems in Nagorno-Karabakh. "The first group of Russian servicemen from the Center arrived in the Republic of Armenia and began work in the city of Stepanakert," Konashenkov added.
Earlier on Friday, the head of the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that the bloodshed in Nagorno-Karabakh had been stopped, and humanitarian tasks were coming to the fore.