The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed media reports from Azerbaijan that Russia will withdraw all of its “peacekeepers” from the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The Russians did nothing while Azerbaijan used force to seize control of the area last year and ruthlessly conducted an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Armenian Christians who lived there.
“Yes, that’s really true,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press conference on Wednesday morning when asked about an Azerbaijani news report of the pullout.
The Moscow Times noted that Azeri-language social media posted videos of a Russian military convoy moving out of the region. The report on Azerbaijan’s Musavat news website was not long on details, but it included a photo of Russian armored personnel carriers rumbling down a
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