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Peacekeepers now control the Lachin corridor, which connects Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, said Sergei Rudsky, head of the General Operations Board of the General Staff.
According to him, 414 troops, eight helicopters and dozens of vehicles and equipment had previously arrived in Armenia.
“There have been 27 flights in the last day,” he told reporters.
According to Rudskoy, almost all the soldiers in the “peacekeeping” mission have gained prior experience during humanitarian missions in Syria.
According to him, under the agreement concluded through Moscow, 16 monitoring stations will be installed in Nagorno-Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor.
Military police will also be deployed, the official added.
The Russian army is “in constant contact” with the leaders of the Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in order to prevent any incidents and guarantee the safety of the Russian “peacekeepers”, Rudskoy said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deal overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
The agreement was reached after a series of victories by Azerbaijani troops in the campaign for the return of an enclave controlled by ethnic Armenians that had declared autonomy almost 30 years ago.
The Russian force, comprised of 1,960 soldiers and 90 armored personnel carriers, will carry out a five-year “peacekeeping” mission in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is renewable.
Aliyev said Turkey, an important ally in Baku, would also contribute to the peacekeeping efforts.
In Yerevan, protesters at the government house demand the resignation of the prime minister
Several thousand people gathered in front of the government building in Yerevan on Wednesday to demand the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Interfax news agency reported.
The building is surrounded by policemen.
Earlier, a spokesman for the opposition party Dašnakcutiun called Ischhan Sagatelian during a demonstration in the center of the capital.
“While Pashinian has fled, hiding in the basement or bunker of any embassy, we are now marching towards building a government that is also doing nothing,” Sagatelian said.
According to him, a government of national unity should be formed in the country.
Earlier, information appeared in the Armenian media that N. Pašinian’s family had flown out of Armenia and that the Prime Minister himself was at the US Embassy. Interfax has received no comment from the Armenian government or the US embassy.
The riots and protests in Yerevan began on Tuesday night with the signing of a tripartite declaration by the Russian and Azerbaijani leaders on a ceasefire and the deployment of peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the transfer of a chain of areas from Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.
In Armenia, this was seen as an unreasonable decision to capitulate.
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