Drinking Coffee Has Become a Festive Pleasure: Four Communities in Shushi Region Cut Off from Food and Medicine

It has been 13 days since the installation of an Azerbaijani checkpoint on the Hakari Bridge connecting Artsakh to Armenia, and still no food or medicine has entered the four communities that remain under a bilateral blockade. This was reported by "Azatutyun."

Edward Yedigaryan, a resident of one of the villages, Yeghdzahogh, recounted during a conversation that there is no longer drinking water coming from the tap, and drinking coffee has become a festive pleasure. "It’s dirty, there has been hail, mudflow has come, there’s no drinking water, we can barely do laundry and such things, we have no drinking water. Our water comes from the mountains, but they have cut it off; that water is being taken to Lachin. There is a spring, we go about 1.5 km to bring drinking water. No medicine, nothing has come in, and food is running out; the situation is terrible," Yedigaryan stated.

Delivering essential supplies to these communities is currently impossible even for the Armenian Red Cross mission in Artsakh. Organization representative Eteri Musayelyan noted that there has been no movement yet. "Nothing has changed since yesterday; we are still in discussions with the parties, with all decision-makers, to understand how we can carry out our movement through the Lachin corridor, and we hope that very soon our activities will be restored," Musayelyan said.

Currently, 110 families, approximately 350 people, live in these four communities in the Shushi region. Many family members who went to Stepanakert or Goris cannot return.