More than 2,900 Artsakh refugees evacuated to Armenia
More than 2,900 refugees have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) since last week’s Azerbaijani military offensive, the Armenian government said on Monday.
“As of 6 a.m. on September 25, 2,906 people arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh,” it said in a statement.
The flow of the forcibly displaced persons continued throughout the night. The registration process for needs assessment and accommodation is underway, the government said.
Artsakh's officials have said they plan to evacuate thousands of displaced people from there into Armenia.
The evacuees are accompanied across the border into Armenia by Russian peacekeepers.
More than 200 people were killed and 400 wounded in the two-day Azerbaijani offensive, which forced Artsakh to agree to disband its armed forces and discuss its “reintegration” into Azerbaijan as part of a Russian-brokered ceasefire announced on Wednesday.