Trench warfare, drones and cowering civilians: on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh
by Bethan McKernan in Stepanakert. Pictures by Achill from on (#5925F)
The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh, waged on and off for a century, has flared anew and civilians once again suffer the consequences
Over the road from the 8-metre-deep crater left by a medium-range missile, Sergei Hovhnnesyan and three of his neighbours are hunkering down in the basement storage space of their local grocery shop in Stepanakert, a mountain town in the heart of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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