MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. The Kremlin believes it is essential to ensure that all parties concerned adhere to the previously achieved agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh, while the question of delegating an extra peacekeeping contingent amid growing tensions in the region should be addressed to the Defense Ministry, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Monday.
"This question should be addressed to our military officials. They keep in touch with the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides. It is most important now to enforce compliance with the achieved agreements by all parties concerned," the Kremlin official said.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on March 26 that Azerbaijan’s forces had entered into the zone of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh. On Sunday evening, it said that Azerbaijan had pulled its forces out of the community of Farukh (Parukh) in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Earlier, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said that Azerbaijani forces intruded into the village of Parukh, the Askeran District of Nagorno-Karabakh at about 15:00 Moscow time. Yerevan accused Baku of disrupting gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh in the area of Shusha.
Tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh aggravated on September 27, 2020, when hostilities flared up there. On November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a trilateral statement on the cessation of hostilities in the area of the conflict. The Azerbaijani and Armenian forces stopped at the positions they were holding at the moment, a number of districts were placed under Baku’s control and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the engagement line and the Lachin corridor.