Russian military in Karabakh withdraw from the Lachin corridor

25 August 2022, 23:10 | Peace 
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A new corridor from Karabakh to Armenia was put into operation by Azerbaijan bypassing the city of Lachin, APA Azerbaijani news agency reports..

For this reason, the Russian military, which is present in the conflict region, is redeploying from the Lachin corridor to take control of the new corridor from Karabakh to Armenia..

Armenians living in the city of Lachin, the villages of Zabukh and Sus are obliged to leave them by the end of August. Then these settlements will come under the full control of Azerbaijan..

Leaving Lachin, Armenians dig up graves and take away the remains of their loved ones.

On November 9, 2020, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Kremlin head Vladimir Putin signed an agreement to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh from 01:00 on November 10.

During the 6-week war with Armenia in 2020, Azerbaijan returned a number of regions of Karabakh lost as a result of the conflict in the 1990s.

In July 2022, Azerbaijan began the process of returning its people to the reclaimed lands, which the Armenians must leave.

In 1923, the Autonomous Region of Nagorno-Karabakh was formed as part of the Azerbaijan SSR from the predominantly Armenian-populated part of Nagorno-Karabakh, later the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region (NKAO).

During the Karabakh war of 1992-1994, the region came under the control of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.. The international community recognized these territories as part of Azerbaijan.

During the Second Karabakh War in 2020, Azerbaijan regained control over the Fizuli, Jabrayil, Zangelan and Kubatly regions, as well as over a significant part of the territory of the former NKAR (including the cities of Shusha and Hadrut).

According to the ceasefire statement on November 10, 2020, Azerbaijan also gained control over Agdam, Kalbajar and Lachin regions..

Conflicts like the Karabakh conflict were laid in the USSR by arbitrary cutting of the borders of autonomies and union republics, often without taking into account local realities. In particular, this became one of the reasons for interethnic conflicts in the south of Kyrgyzstan between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz.. The south of Kyrgyzstan is geographically, culturally and ethnically part of the Ferghana Valley, but in the 20s of the last century it was transferred to the Kyrgyz SSR. Ethnic bomb went off during the collapse of the USSR. The second conflict occurred in 2010.

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