Peacekeepers of the Russian Federation must officially stay in Nagorno Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh: ed.) until November 2025, this issue will be resolved in negotiations. As “Armenpress” informs, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a press conference.

“Officially, our peacekeepers are there until November 2025, and of course, we must decide and resolve the issue of what and how we will do in the future in dialogue with our partners. We will decide that during the negotiations,” Putin said.

The Russian President noted that when an agreement on the presence of Russian peacekeepers in the territory of Nagorno Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh, ed.) was reached in 2020, their mandate was only to observe the ceasefire regime.

“The status of Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh: ed.) was not final, however, and when Armenia recognized that Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh: ed.) is a part of Azerbaijan, at that time it turned out that our peacekeepers were already definitely, without any doubt are in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and, of course, now, to put it bluntly, after the difficult events related to the displacement of the Armenian population, the situation has completely and radically changed,” Putin noted.