Corpses and burnt-out cars line Karabakh road as Russian troops deploy

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting dedicated to a humanitarian mission in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh via a video conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow,

SHUSHA, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Corpses of ethnic Armenian soldiers lined stretches of a mountain road in Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday as Russian peacekeepers in trucks and armoured personnel carriers moved in after a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Russia is deploying almost 2,000 troops along with tanks and other armour to secure a truce agreed this week after a six-week war over the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan and surrounding areas in which Turkey-backed Azeri forces captured swathes of territory.