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Hours later, Putin announced a peace deal and Aliev announced on television that all military operations would be suspended. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinjan said he had no choice but to participate, as he faces the prospect of even greater bloodshed on the battlefield. Ongoing negotiations between Russia and Turkey will continue to shape the dynamics in the region – and the extent to which the 9 November ceasefire agreement will be implemented. If Russia and Turkey fail to reach agreement on key issues, conflicts could recur. The Azerbaijani army says it has entered the Agdam district, the first of the three to be surrendered by Armenia as part of a peace agreement brokered by Russia to end fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. On 10 November, the two countries signed an agreement brokered by Russia to end the fighting and work towards a comprehensive solution. With the mediation of Russia`s ceasefire and its broader conditions, Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his country`s central position in the conflict as the undisputed mediator of power in the region and became the best and only ally of Armenia willing to act in a tangible way on the ground, if only to defend Armenia`s internationally recognized borders. Russia has also sidelined Turkey, which is not a party to the agreement, and forced Ankara to negotiate its role as guarantor of Azerbaijan`s security with Russia as part of ongoing negotiations on the establishment of a joint Russian-Turkish ceasefire monitoring unit. The agreement, aimed at ending the conflict between the two nations, was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinjan.

Since the conflict began in September, several ceasefire agreements have been signed between the two sides, but none have yet been successful. Under the new peace agreement, both sides will now retain positions in the territories they currently occupy, which will represent a significant gain for Azerbaijan, which has regained more than 15-20% of its territory lost in the recent conflict, the NAC Intelligence Agency reported. In the main square of stepanakert, Anahit Grigoryan and his elderly mother Arega have just got off one of the buses in Yerevan. They lived in shelters for a month and a half. Now they stand in between, like the Russian peacekeepers stationed in the city. The Kremlin has flooded Ankara`s hopes of sending peacekeepers alongside Russian troops to Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding provinces with cold water and has insisted that Turkey respect the ceasefire from monitoring posts in Azerbaijan. Under the agreement, the two belligerents pledged to exchange prisoners of war and the dead. In addition, Armenian troops were to withdraw from Armenian-occupied territories around Nagorno-Karabakh by 1 December. A Russian peacekeeping force of about 2,000 Russian ground forces was to be deployed to the region for at least five years, with one of its missions being the protection of the Lachin Corridor, which connects Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh region. In addition, Armenia is committed to ensuring the «security» of the passage between the mainland of Azerbaijan and its enclave of Nakhchivan by a strip of land in Syunik province, Armenia. The border forces of the Russian FSB would exercise control of the transport communication.

[5] [6] French President Emmanuel Macron this week asked Russia to clarify «ambiguities» regarding the ceasefire brokered by Moscow, including Turkey`s role in the peacekeeping mission. For six weeks, Armenia and Azerbaijan have waged a fierce war on its doorstep for disputed areas in and around the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, mainly inhabited by ethnic Armenians. On 10 November, a peace agreement brokered by Russia ceded several regions to Azerbaijan: part of Nagorno-Karabakh itself and three regions around Azerbaijan.