Azerbaijan’s closure of the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor continues, leaving travelers on the road stranded and preventing access to food, gas and medical services for the Armenian residents of Artsakh.
“Artsakh needs all of us. For more than two days, Azerbaijan has kept the 120,000 Armenians of Artsakh under blockade, including my family. We must each do whatever is possible
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What a nightmare.
Horrific. The Armenians in Artsakh are in mortal danger. And Pashinyan with the support of the West and Russia, will give away the rest of Artsakh to the fascist dictatorship of Azerbaijan, which has a habit of eliminating its own citizens. This is the equivalent of handing Jews to Nazi Germany.
It is odd that the Russian military kills innocent Ukrainian citizens for no apparent reason. Yet here we have Azeri nationalists involved in a hostile act against innocent Armenian civilians which is contrary to the trilateral agreement and they are being “negotiated” with. It seems that Russia values Azeri lives more than Armenian or Ukrainian lives. Seems pretty racist to me.
Without US / European aid it is an exercise in futility.
Ugly realities. Great reporting!
The Russian peacekeepers are preventing the end of Artsakh, which has been continuously inhabited by Armenians for millenia. The peacekeepers are there because of Russian interests, but we should take advantage when our national interests are the same.
Traitor Nikol is on the side of the Turks, along with his Western backers. They forced out the inhabitants of Berdzor, Aghavno, and Nerkin Sus. The disasters will continue as long as Nikol is still in power.
It’s not that simplistic, Aram. For example: [1] I saw one Russian Peacekeeper videoed getting chummy with the Azeri-Turkic thugs, at the Lachin Corridor. The Russian Peacekeeper was caught on video saying this, “Inshallah, Karabakh is Azerbaijan.” [2] Another thing, those Russian Peacekeepers could simply forcibly remove the Azeri’Turkic troublemakers, who block humanitarian aide through the corridor. Such an approach isn’t alien to them.
Hi Laurence,
The Russians are known to want to keep a long-term presence in Artsakh. They don’t want Armenians to leave and they don’t want fighting. They want to keep the status quo. I expect that there are ongoing negotiations between Moscow and Baku about the blockade.
There could be many ethnically non-Russian soldiers among these Russian ‘peacekeepers’ acting the way they do as you explained and that because they may feel or have linguistic, religious or cultural connection with these Azerbaijani state-sponsored hooligans disguised as environmentalists just like there are several Russian-led CSTO member states, which Armenia is also a member, that are supposed to defend the legitimate demands and interests of Armenia but instead they act neutral at best in this regard and in some cases behave and come across as anti-Armenian because they identify themselves with or have secret dealings with artificial Azerbaijan’s Aliyev KGB MAFIA clan. Having said that, I believe the Russian government itself does not want this conflict resolved because if there is any kind of resolution to this conflict between the Armenians and the Azerbaijani criminals would mean that Russian troops stationed there will have no reason and excuse to remain there anymore and would be asked to leave. That is the last thing Russia would want to do now that its troops are back in there after thirty years of absence. I have no doubt that this latest questionable war imposed on the Armenians was in essence a way for the Russians to interfere and reestablish themselves back in the region!
Let’s see now: There’s a slush of petrol-oil across the Country of Azerbaijan, and the Caspian Sea is polluted. Now, Baku, Azerbaijan is complaining, because some Armenians make a living in the mining business. Lachin Corridor “Protesters” making a lot of barking noises again.
This ‘slush’, how large is it exactly? We keep hearing about it daily, but no specifics are ever given.
Armenian people need to move on from the myth that Armenia lost because of Pashinyan apparently selling out in 2020 and had they been closer to Russia they would have prevented Azeri attack on Arktash. The woes Russia has faced in Ukraine loosing many assets to the same type of Turkish drones that Armenia did should put paid to that convenient notion of a stab in the back myth and inflated notion of Russian power,although don’t count them out either. After all the 2016 clashes Armenia close to Russia who was a major supplier to Azerbaijan! was at a disadvantage and the balance of power had worsened since. Believing in myths and falsehoods will only further misfortune. Be realistic! Yes Russian peacekeepers are there for Russian interests and not Armenian as such. Equally US forces are for the interests of the USA where they are stationed.