SOCHI, October 6. /TASS/. The mandate of the Russian peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh permitted them only to oversee compliance with the ceasefire agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

"The legal status of our peacekeepers was based exclusively on the November 2020 statement [approved by Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan]," Putin said.

"Their duties were limited only to monitoring compliance with the ceasefire agreements. That’s all," he added.