News - Laurence Broers: Humanitarian consequences of Azerbaijan attack against Karabakh will be dire in any scenario

As expected, Azerbaijan has launched its own version of Croatia’s “Operation Storm,” seemingly to retake Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh in its entirety. Drone plus artillery strikes are reported on targets in Karabakh capital Stepanakert and elsewhere. South Caucasus expert Laurence Broers noted this on X—former Twitter. This attack followed a nine-month siege of the area. The brutality of the siege has intensified since mid-June. The Armenian population of Karabakh is physically weakened, there is not enough food and medicine, fuel for the movement of ambulances, Broers. The humanitarian consequences are difficult to predict, as they depend on the scale of the hostilities, but they will be dire in any scenario, the South Caucasus expert concluded.