Nearly 3,000 Armenians entered Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh following last week’s Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed region, which left hundreds dead, wounded or missing. The Guardian reports on it.
Several hundred refugees began crossing the border from Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday. They were the first civilians to reach Armenia in almost a year, reuniting families after a 10-month blockade by Azerbaijan led to desperate shortages of food, fuel and water in the region’s capital Stepanakert and surrounding areas.
Officials from the region’s breakaway Armenian government have announced that they plan to evacuate thousands of displaced people from the region to Armenia. The local government said the displaced people would be escorted across the border from the disputed region into Armenia by Russian peacekeepers.
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