But the rapid Russian advance on the Caucasus front prompted the Ottoman authorities to embark on the genocide of their Armenian subjects and Russian Transcaucasia was flooded with refugees from the massacres.
But the rapid Russian advance on the Caucasus Campaign, as early as April 1915 after the Van Resistance, prompted the Ottoman authorities to embark on the genocide of their Armenian subjects. The Russian Transcaucasia was flooded with refugees from the massacres.