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Military personnel of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian Defense Ministry continue to work on engineering reconnaissance and mine clearance in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

According to the source, specialists of the center conducted engineering reconnaissance and clearing of explosive objects of roads with a length of more than 2,85 kilometers and 5,9 hectares territory of Stepanakert
During the day, 104 explosive objects were found, which were taken to a specially equipped landfill and destroyed.

In total, during the peacekeeping operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, engineering units cleared 14,67 hectares of land and 5.5 km of roads, 81 residential buildings, detecting and and neutralizing 416 explosive objects.

It adds that over the past day 2,100 refugees returned to Stepanakert from Armenia with the hep of Russian peacekeeping forces.