Azerbaijan rejects Armenian accusation of military build-up
Russia has maintained peacekeepers in the region since a 2020 war in which Azerbaijan seized back significant amounts of territory it had lost to Armenian forces in the 1990s.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and members of the delegation attend a meeting to defuse tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Moscow, Russia, May 19, 2023.(photo credit: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)ByREUTERSUpdated: