457 more refugees returned to Karabakh from Armenia in 24 hours

"In total, more than 41 thousand refugees have already returned to Nagorno-Karabakh to their places of permanent residence," TASS reports.

Another convoy of buses with refugees arrived in Stepanakert, accompanied by Russian peacekeepers, the ministry said.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that the South Caucasus is gradually becoming a region of stability, not contradictions.