The servicemen of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense continue their engineering search and demining in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh [(Artsakh)], the Russian MOD reports.

Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers on Thursday cleared explosive ordnances in a large area in the southern outskirts of the Nagorno-Karabakh capital Stepanakert, during which found 10 cluster munitions.

The detected explosive ordnances and the abandoned or unexploded ordnances are destroyed.

These engineering units have so far cleared more than 45 hectares of land and over 14 kilometers of roads, and discovered and defused more than 1,120 explosive ordnances.

Also, repairing of vital engineering communications continues, with the help of Russian peacekeepers, in Artsakh’s war-torn areas.

On November 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on a complete cessation of hostilities— which Azerbaijan had launched on September 27—in and around Artsakh. Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the region to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities.