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People are being evacuated from Stepanakert (Photo: Bars Media Documentary Film Studio via REUTERS)
Journalists report the mass evacuation of people from the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert. Earlier, Azerbaijan announced the capture of the neighboring city of Shusha.
Journalist Yekaterina Ivanchenko in a comment to Hromadsky said that as of November 7, people began to evacuate from Stepanakert en masse.
First, the wounded and infected with the coronavirus were removed. The Armenian side did not officially announce the evacuation and journalists were only able to report on the evacuation by representatives of the media.
At this time, Azerbaijan announced the capture of the city of Shusha. (Armenia denies this fact). Later, the residents of Stepanakert were threatened. Shusha is on a hill, about an 8-minute drive from Stepanakert. The city is open to bombardment from above.
“In fact, they are all being eliminated. Everyone is being evacuated, but it is not allowed to talk about it. What is happening today: there are only columns of military that are leaving the city. Unfortunately, the Armenian side does not say anything, “said journalist Ivanchenko.
Hundreds of empty and light military vehicles, as well as ambulances, police and emergency vehicles, can be seen outside the city, he said.
The journalist said that people are taken to the Armenian city of Vardenis, where they decide who and where to hospitalize. At the same time, the military cannot leave the city.
“The person I went with yesterday cannot leave the city, because he is a boy of military age. They can call him because he is the only breadwinner in the family and they cannot let him go either, ”said the journalist.
Earlier, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, announced on Sunday, November 8, the capture of the city of Shusha.
The peace agreement came to a standstill after talks between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2009.
More than 30,000 people have died during the six years of the war.
In 1994, mediated by Moscow, a ceasefire agreement was signed that ended active hostilities in the region, but left Karabakh and the surrounding regions of Azerbaijan under Armenian control.
The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia continues over Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1988, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, inhabited mainly by Armenians, announced its withdrawal from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
Countries have already agreed to a truce on three occasions (October 10, 18 and 25), both mediated by Russia and the United States, but almost immediately blamed each other for the bombing.
The international community called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to immediately cease hostilities and to sit at the negotiating table.
Both countries accuse each other of escalating the conflict. According to the UN, more than 50 civilians have become victims of a new exacerbation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. According to Baku and Yerevan, the enemy is using heavy weapons and mercenaries.
Let us remind you that large-scale hostilities between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops on the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh resumed on the night of September 27.
