Last Armenians leave Artsakh

ArmInfo.  The last Armenians remaining in Artsakh following its violent seizure by Azerbaijan in the fall of 2023 and the mass exodus of the Armenian population have left the region.

According to the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Labor and  Social Affairs, ten Armenians and one Armenian citizen of Russian  origin, who remained in Artsakh after the mass exodus in the fall of  2023, have been transported to the Republic of Armenia based on their  own requests, which were submitted to the relevant authorities of  Armenia and Azerbaijan.

As a reminder, on September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan, under the pretext  of an "anti-terrorist operation," initiated a large-scale aggression  against Artsakh, which led to the complete de-Armenization of the  NKR.  This was preceded by a nearly 10-month blockade of the  unrecognized republic. Since the enemy aggression that began in the  fall of 2020, which culminated in the complete ethnic cleansing of  Artsakh in September 2023, over 150,000 Artsakh residents have lost  their homeland and become refugees. In November 2024, Artsakh  Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan reported that 13 Armenians remained in  Artsakh after being forcibly displaced. As Robert Mardini, Director  General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),  noted, these are primarily elderly and disabled people who had no one  to accompany them.