Ruzan Israyelyan and her children spent days walking through forests in NagornoKarabakh and hiding from Azerbaijani drones as they fled for Armenia following Azerbaijan's blitz offensive to reclaim control of the breakaway region.A truck in the convoy of thousands of...
GORIS, Armenia — Ruzan Israyelyan and her children spent days walking through forests in Nagorno-Karabakh and hiding from Azerbaijani drones as they fled for Armenia following Azerbaijan's blitz offensive to reclaim control of the breakaway region.
“After the blockade, my children were already malnourished," she said, referring to the 9-month Azerbaijani blockade of the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. “I could not find a single piece of bread for my children in Stepanakert for two days․ It was impossible to stay any longer. We managed to find a friend’s car, and somehow we squeezed into it.”
International Committee of the Red Cross volunteers provided refugees with food and medical assistance at a humanitarian station in Kornidzor, an Armenian village near the border. Armenian authorities offered temporary housing. Cars packed with refugees waiting to be allocated accommodation lined up in the nearby city of Goris.
Russia, which has been Armenia's main sponsor and ally since the 1991 Soviet collapse, has also sought to maintain friendly ties with Azerbaijan. But Moscow's clout in the region waned as the war in Ukraine diverted Russian resources and made it increasingly dependent on Azerbaijan's main ally, Turkey.
Azerbaijani authorities have pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians, but many do not trust that promise and fear reprisals for the three-decade separatist conflict.
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