Artsakh information headquarters informs that in recent days, some Azerbaijani media are trying to present the transfer of a group of citizens to the Republic of Armenia by the Russian peacekeeping troops as the evacuation of service members.
"No servicemen are RA citizens in the Republic of Artsakh, as the official Stepanakert and Yerevan have repeatedly announced.
The persons transferred from Artsakh by the Russian peacekeepers are students of Armenian and foreign higher education institutions, Russian citizens and their family members, as well as specialists and workers who are citizens of Armenia involved in the construction and mining industries in the republic, who lost their jobs as a result of the blockade by Azerbaijan and could not return to their place of residence permanently. " the message says.
