Il-76 aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Aerospace Forces of Russia began the transfer from the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny airfield to Nagorno-Karabakh of military personnel, special equipment and equipment of the engineering unit of the peacekeeping brigade of the Central Military District. This was reported on Tuesday, November 17, in the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“In the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, sappers will carry out tasks of engineering reconnaissance, mine clearance of terrain, roads and objects,” the release says. Sappers will provide preparation and maintenance of supply and evacuation routes, water purification and other engineering support tasks.
Service dogs are used to search for explosive objects.
On the eve, a task force of the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in the capital of unrecognized Karabakh, Stepanakert, to provide assistance to the local population.
Earlier on Monday, it became known that 475 people returned to the city. The Russian military ensured the safe passage of buses carrying refugees across the contact line.
On November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an agreement to end hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh from November 10.
The document also provides for the introduction of Russian peacekeepers into the region, the exchange of prisoners between the parties to the conflict, the transfer of a number of regions of the region by Armenia to Azerbaijan and the return of refugees to Karabakh.
According to the commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the region, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is stabilizing, no military operations are being conducted.