Russia starts setting up humanitarian response center in Stepanakert - TASS

Russia’s Defense Ministry has started setting up an inter-agency humanitarian response center in Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic, the Russian National Defense Management Center said on Sunday.

"The establishment of the inter-agency humanitarian response center will be fully completed by November 20, 2020. Since this date the center will start fulfilling the entire range of humanitarian response tasks assigned to it," the center said.

The center's grouping will be reinforced by a task force of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry as well as the forces and hardware of the Federal Security Service’s Border Service and representatives of other federal bodies of the executive power.

Besides, Russian peacekeepers started escorting through the Lachinsky corridor buses with refugees, who are returning to Nagorno-Karabakh.