Trench warfare, drones and cowering civilians: on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Trench warfare, drones and cowering civilians: on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh​

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Over the road from the 8-metre-deep crater left by a medium-range missile, Sergei Hovhnnesyan and three of his neighbours are hunkering down in the basement storage space of their local grocery shop in Stepanakert, a mountain town in the heart of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Whenever there is a gap in the airstrikes and shelling, their elderly legs make the trip up the stairs to bring down enough provisions to survive what could turn into a siege as the two ex-Soviet neighbours go to war once again.

About 70,000 Armenians in Nagarno-Karabakh have fled the poorly aimed Azerbaijani rockets and drones, which appear to have hit civilian neighbourhoods more often than infrastructure and military bases. Those who stay – many of them from older generations like Sergei and his friends – say they would rather die than abandon their homes to Azerbaijan.
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…The traditional peace process sponsors – Russia, France and the US – will probably now need to sit down directly with Turkey to make any progress.
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Let’s hope they can workout something.

Anyone can feel free to add on to the old thread or this one. I thought, we needed a more “general” thread on the issue.

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Azerbaijan needs crushed. Armenia should annex that entire land and expel the Azerbaijani’s to either turkey or Iran. Whoever will take them.
 
This is unconfirmed but… I’ll bet it is so. Maybe there’s another way to get this aid to those in need. Also, it may well be possible that the Azeri army has allegedly taken back a number of towns and villages in that area. Depending, preventing aid from reaching civilians may be a war crime I would think.

Turkey bans delivery of 100 tons of US humanitarian aid to Armenia through its airspace​

22:39, 14 October, 2020
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS. Turkey has banned the delivery of 100 tons of US humanitarian aid to Armenia through its airspace, ARMENPRESS reports High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan said in a press conference.
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We should be getting this news in the mainstream press instead of having to hunt down one. It does concern the US.

Just stumbled on this, you know UK PM Johnson did not want us to leave Northern Syria (and we have not but we may have drawn back on some areas), see this story:


See story at link, it’s a bit brutal. How odd that this would tie in to Bojo, Boris Johnson.
 
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