Six years have passed since the end of the 44-day war between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).
On the night of November 9–10, 2020, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a trilateral statement ending hostilities and providing for the deployment of Russian peacekeepers along the line of contact and in the Lachin corridor.
The war began on September 27, 2020, with a large-scale Azerbaijani offensive. According to the latest Armenian official figures cited, 3,833 people were killed on the Armenian side, including 3,755 military personnel and 78 civilians.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Armenian forces lost control of seven districts surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as parts of the territory itself, including Hadrut and Shushi.
Following Azerbaijan’s military offensive on September 19, 2023, more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh, leaving the region almost entirely without its Armenian population.
Russian peacekeepers completed their withdrawal from the region in June 2024.
