Servicemen of the Russian peacekeeping contingent have provided drinking water to more than 1,500 residents of the capital Stepanakert and remote areas of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"Over the course of two weeks, the servicemen of the humanitarian center of the peacekeeping contingent made more than 30 trips, and provided the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh with more than 200 tons of drinking water," the ministry added.