03:03Footage captured on Friday shows volunteers unloading truckloads of food and relief kits for refugees arriving in Yerevan from Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Our kit, I think, is pretty good. Each kit includes two kilograms of pasta, two kilograms of buckwheat, two kilograms of rice. Depending on the day it may happen that there are two kilograms of flour or a kilogram of flour. That is based on what is available at the [food] warehouses, what we can buy. A liter of sunflower oil, tea, coffee. A kilogram of salt, a kilogram of sugar," one of volunteers, Mika Badalyan, explained.
The aid worker added that volunteer organizations and concerned people joined their efforts to buy food and personal hygiene items for 2,800 people in just one day.
Marina Semenova, who was among refugees from Stepanakert, said that her family had no savings left.
"We've been under siege for nine months, as they say. My husband, he was fired, so we're tapped out here, and we're very grateful to people like them for helping people like us, because nine months there have been exhausting," Semenova said.
According to Yerevan, 100,632 nternally displaced persons (IDPs) from Nagorno-Karabakh have been hosted by Armenia as of Friday evening.
The year-long conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on Tuesday, September 19, with the beginning of Azerbaijan's counter-terrorist operation in the region. On the same day, Moscow called on the parties to the conflict to declare a ceasefire and start negotiations.
Azerbaijan accused Armenia of 'systematic shelling of its army positions' and announced 'anti-terrorist measures of a local nature' in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stated that the only way to achieve peace in the region was 'unconditional and complete withdrawal of the Armenian Armed Forces from the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and dissolution of the so-called regime'.
For his part, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed that there were no Armenian Armed Forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Armenian Foreign Ministry called the events a 'large-scale aggression'.
On Wednesday, Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed NKR said that its authorities had decided to lay down arms for a ceasefire from 13:00 local time (09:00 GMT). Baku also announced the suspension of its 'anti-terrorist measures'.
Nagorno-Karabakh - formerly an autonomous region of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population - broke away from Azerbaijan in the final years of the USSR, establishing a self-proclaimed, independent but internationally-unrecognised entity.
Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, and after a major war in 2020 regained control over large parts of the region.In May 2023, the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim to the territory but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.
'We could hardly imagine that this could happen' - Nagorno-Karabakh refugees receive humanitarian aid in Yerevan
Footage captured on Friday shows volunteers unloading truckloads of food and relief kits for refugees arriving in Yerevan from Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Our kit, I think, is pretty good. Each kit includes two kilograms of pasta, two kilograms of buckwheat, two kilograms of rice. Depending on the day it may happen that there are two kilograms of flour or a kilogram of flour. That is based on what is available at the [food] warehouses, what we can buy. A liter of sunflower oil, tea, coffee. A kilogram of salt, a kilogram of sugar," one of volunteers, Mika Badalyan, explained.
The aid worker added that volunteer organizations and concerned people joined their efforts to buy food and personal hygiene items for 2,800 people in just one day.
Marina Semenova, who was among refugees from Stepanakert, said that her family had no savings left.
"We've been under siege for nine months, as they say. My husband, he was fired, so we're tapped out here, and we're very grateful to people like them for helping people like us, because nine months there have been exhausting," Semenova said.
According to Yerevan, 100,632 nternally displaced persons (IDPs) from Nagorno-Karabakh have been hosted by Armenia as of Friday evening.
The year-long conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on Tuesday, September 19, with the beginning of Azerbaijan's counter-terrorist operation in the region. On the same day, Moscow called on the parties to the conflict to declare a ceasefire and start negotiations.
Azerbaijan accused Armenia of 'systematic shelling of its army positions' and announced 'anti-terrorist measures of a local nature' in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stated that the only way to achieve peace in the region was 'unconditional and complete withdrawal of the Armenian Armed Forces from the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and dissolution of the so-called regime'.
For his part, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed that there were no Armenian Armed Forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Armenian Foreign Ministry called the events a 'large-scale aggression'.
On Wednesday, Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed NKR said that its authorities had decided to lay down arms for a ceasefire from 13:00 local time (09:00 GMT). Baku also announced the suspension of its 'anti-terrorist measures'.
Nagorno-Karabakh - formerly an autonomous region of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population - broke away from Azerbaijan in the final years of the USSR, establishing a self-proclaimed, independent but internationally-unrecognised entity.
Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, and after a major war in 2020 regained control over large parts of the region.In May 2023, the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim to the territory but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.
Footage captured on Friday shows volunteers unloading truckloads of food and relief kits for refugees arriving in Yerevan from Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Our kit, I think, is pretty good. Each kit includes two kilograms of pasta, two kilograms of buckwheat, two kilograms of rice. Depending on the day it may happen that there are two kilograms of flour or a kilogram of flour. That is based on what is available at the [food] warehouses, what we can buy. A liter of sunflower oil, tea, coffee. A kilogram of salt, a kilogram of sugar," one of volunteers, Mika Badalyan, explained.
The aid worker added that volunteer organizations and concerned people joined their efforts to buy food and personal hygiene items for 2,800 people in just one day.
Marina Semenova, who was among refugees from Stepanakert, said that her family had no savings left.
"We've been under siege for nine months, as they say. My husband, he was fired, so we're tapped out here, and we're very grateful to people like them for helping people like us, because nine months there have been exhausting," Semenova said.
According to Yerevan, 100,632 nternally displaced persons (IDPs) from Nagorno-Karabakh have been hosted by Armenia as of Friday evening.
The year-long conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on Tuesday, September 19, with the beginning of Azerbaijan's counter-terrorist operation in the region. On the same day, Moscow called on the parties to the conflict to declare a ceasefire and start negotiations.
Azerbaijan accused Armenia of 'systematic shelling of its army positions' and announced 'anti-terrorist measures of a local nature' in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stated that the only way to achieve peace in the region was 'unconditional and complete withdrawal of the Armenian Armed Forces from the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and dissolution of the so-called regime'.
For his part, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed that there were no Armenian Armed Forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Armenian Foreign Ministry called the events a 'large-scale aggression'.
On Wednesday, Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed NKR said that its authorities had decided to lay down arms for a ceasefire from 13:00 local time (09:00 GMT). Baku also announced the suspension of its 'anti-terrorist measures'.
Nagorno-Karabakh - formerly an autonomous region of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population - broke away from Azerbaijan in the final years of the USSR, establishing a self-proclaimed, independent but internationally-unrecognised entity.
Baku claims sovereignty over the territory, and after a major war in 2020 regained control over large parts of the region.In May 2023, the Yerevan government recognised Azerbaijan’s claim to the territory but also called for protection for the region's ethnic Armenians.