“The servicemen of the Russian peacekeeping contingent on the eve ensured the safety of a visit to the Christian monastery of Amaras by another group of 75 pilgrims,” the statement said.
According to the abbot of the monastery Kegart Hovhannisyan, it is not safe to get to the monastery without Russian peacekeepers.
Earlier it became known that Russia sent the first batch of Sputnik V vaccine to vaccinate the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is in the zone of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.