Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Armenians flee area as Russian peacekeepers meet Azeri soldiers in Shusha

Scores of Armenians were fleeing the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Wednesday after the country’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a ceasefire deal with Azerbaijan and Russia. The declaration, announced on Monday night follows six weeks of heavy fighting in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, sparking fears of a wider regional war feared to have killed thousands. The territory is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but populated and, until recently, fully controlled by ethnic Armenians, w