YEREVAN. – The blockade of Stepanakert during the Karabakh War needs to be known and remembered. 

Russian journalist Svetlana Kulchitskaya, who is the author of several documentary films about this war, on Wednesday stated the aforesaid at a conference, entitled “The Breakthrough of the Blockade of Stepanakert: 25 Years Later,” being held in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.

The journalist shared her recollections of those years.

Kulchitskaya noted that she had lived in a basement in Stepanakert during those years, together with the residents of the capital city of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).

The Russian journalist visited Karabakh three times, over the course of several years.

“How low can one [i.e. Azerbaijan] go to inflict such a situation to people?” asked Kulchitskaya. “My meetings with people in Karabakh are like an open wound. So many years have passed, yet I always will remember about it. (…). This should be spoken about, be remembered. The war needs to be stopped; it’s terrible.”