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Map of Nagorno-Karabakh, located between Armenia and Azerbaijan
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GridHot.ID – Volunteers the village patrols the river that meanders on valley Nagorno-Karabakh.
They were camouflaged, holding Kalashnikov rifles, trying to defend the strategic area between the capital of the disputed region and Armenia.
Cannons are heard near them at regular intervals, as they are also on guard, covering the gurgling of the Hakari river which flows between the forested hills.
Valley it leads to the Lachin corridor, a strategic point linking ethnic areas Armenia of Azerbaijan with Armenia.
For more than a month, Azerbaijan and Armenia were trapped in fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A mountainous province seized by Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan in a 1990s war that killed 30,000 people.
In the first days of the last turmoil in the battle that erupted on September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani forces destroyed the bridge crossing the Hakari river.
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