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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Goris, Armenia

‘There is no way out’: residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fear worst as Azerbaijan’s troops take control

A soldier looks away from the camera down a road that can be seen winding through bare, rolling hills into the distance
An Armenian guard near the town of Kornidzor on the border with Azerbaijan. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images

Anna has already survived nine months of a blockade, then a new Azerbaijani offensive that brought shelling and gunfire to her city, and then days hiding in a basement.

Now, even as fighting dies down, life in her hometown in Nagorno-Karabakh is a struggle to survive, with shortages of nearly all critical goods, whole families sleeping rough or scrabbling for food after fleeing their villages, and an information vacuum that has separated loved ones and fuelled fears of the worst in towns occupied by Azerbaijan.

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