News - Yeghtsahogh was razed to the ground, Mets Shen is under siege, says village head

The village of Mets Shen in the Shushi region in Nagorno-Karabakh is under siege, we cannot evacuate the residents, the Azerbaijanis are shooting at this moment, Davit Davtyan, head of Mets Shen village, told NEWS.am. "There is no ceasefire in our region. They haven't hit our village yet, but they are shelling the outskirts. We are in an unbearable situation. We managed to evacuate from Yeghtsahogh village, but we could not evacuate our village, women, old people, children... they are all here. Yeghtsahogh is no longer there, it was razed to the ground, and there are no people there either. It's uncertainty, we don't know what to do. We are under complete lockdown. We don't have victims and wounded from the village, but we have many victims from our general area, we don't know the whereabouts of many of them," explained he. He mentioned that the advantage of the adjacent Hin Shen village is that there are Russian peacekeepers there. "But you understand, don't you, that even the Russians don't risk letting us go out. This is the end. There is nothing beyond these, nor will there be," said Davtyan. Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack against Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19, among the casualties and wounded are civilians. On September 20, it became known that the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh accepted the proposal of the command of the Russian peacekeeping mission regarding the cessation of fire. Proposal by Azerbaijan envisages the withdrawal of the remaining units and servicemen of the RA Armed Forces from the deployment zone of the Russian peacekeeping troops and the dissolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh armed formations, the complete disarmament of the Defense Army, as well as the withdrawal of heavy equipment and weapons from the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in order to quickly eliminate them. In addition, on Thursday, the representatives of Artsakh and Azerbaijan will meet in Yevlakh, a city in Azerbaijan located about 100 km northeast of Stepanakert, and the issues of ensuring the security of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians will be discussed.