YEREVAN, September 24. /TASS/. Residents of two villages in Nagorno-Karabakh have been evacuated to Armenia, the Yerevan-based news.am portal said on Sunday, citing Nagorno-Karabakh’s information center.

According to the portal, residents of the Karabakh’s Yegtsakhokh community were evacuated during the recent outburst of hostilities and have arrived in Armenia’s Kornidzor, escorted by Russian peacekeepers.

On September 19, tensions flared up again in Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku announced it was launching what it described as "local anti-terrorist measures" and demanded the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the region. Yerevan, in turn, said there were no Armenian forces in Karabakh, calling what was happening "an act of large-scale aggression." Russia called on the parties to end the bloodshed and return to efforts to resolve the issue diplomatically. On September 20, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that an agreement on the suspension of the anti-terrorist measures in Karabakh had been reached through the mediation of Russia’s peacekeeping mission.

On September 21, Azerbaijani officials met with representatives of Karabakh’s Armenian population in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh to "discuss issues of reintegration".