Russia has denounced “public attacks” on its peacekeepers deployed around the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan as “unacceptable”, a day after Armenia accused the contingent of failing to fulfil their duties amid a blockade there

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Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday warned the criticism levelled by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan a day earlier threatened to “cause tangible harm to the process of Armenian-Azerbaijani normalisation”.On Thursday, Armenian news site Hetq quoted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as accusing the Russian peacekeeping force of “becoming a silent witness to the depopulation of Nagorno-Karabakh”, having failed to reopen the only road between Armenia and the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave in recent weeks.The Azeri government says the protest – ostensibly over illegal mining in the region – is spontaneous and civilian transport is able to move freely in both directions between Armenia and Karabakh.The current dispute marks the latest flashpoint in decades of tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.No such agreement has been reached yet and violations of the 2020 truce remain commonplace, with more than 200 soldiers killed on both sides during a flare-up of fighting in September."

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