President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the Defense Ministry’s enlarged board meeting thanked the Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh for their professionalism, self-control and endurance, TASS reports.
“It is for more than a year now that our peacekeepers have helped maintain stability in Nagorno-Karabakh. They largely take the credit for the improvement of the humanitarian situation, the clearing of some territories of mines, the restoration of social infrastructures and the preservation of historical and cultural monuments,” Putin said.