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Russian troops leave Karabakh, now back under Azerbaijan's control | SHB News

#breakingnews #news #russia #ukraine Russia shut down a military base in Azerbaijan on Wednesday (May 15) where nearly 2,000 of its troops had been deployed, after Azeri forces captured the area last year despite a two-year Russian mission to prevent war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. A total of 1,960 Russian peacekeepers had been housed in 10 barracks at the base in Khojaly, a town in the Karabakh region. Despite the deployment, Azerbaijan recaptured Karabakh in a lightning offensive last September, prompting an exodus of 100,000 ethnic Armenians who had enjoyed de facto independence since breaking away in the 1990s in the first of two wars between the South Caucasus neighbors. "The presence of Russian peacekeepers made it possible to establish peace on Azerbaijani soil," Russian Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov said at the departure ceremony. Azerbaijan's Chief of the General Staff, Colonel General Kerim Valiyev, said Russia had made "every effort to establish peace in the Karabakh economic region" and bring decades of conflict to an end. Armenia has a very different take on Russia's role. It has accused Moscow of failing it by doing nothing to prevent Azerbaijan from taking Karabakh by force and conducting what it calls ethnic cleansing, something Azerbaijan denies. Armenia has suspended its participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, a defense grouping of former Soviet states that is dominated by Russia. Armenia was not represented at Wednesday's ceremony, where folk dances and patriotic songs were performed and Russian troops departed to the strains of a military band. Nikiforov said the Russian force could take credit for providing humanitarian assistance, clearing more than 30,000 explosive devices, returning more than 110 prisoners of war and arranging the return of more than 1,900 fallen soldiers to the respective sides. SHB News Channel (SNC) is a comprehensive 24-hour news service that provides breaking news as well as political and business news. As the top cable network in both total viewers and Adults 25-54, SNC has been the most-watched news channel in the country for nearly two decades and according to Public Policy Polling is the most trusted source of television news domestic. SNC is in more than 89 million homes and dominates the cable news industry, regularly ranking in 12 of the top 15 programs in the genre.