This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of Modern Warfare and underreported

conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to writer Joe Kasabian.

He's going to be talking to us about the new ongoing blockade or siege of Stapanakaaca which is the capital city for Armenians in

Artsak or Karabak the contested region between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan sent fake eco-protesters to blockade the

latching corridor which is the only road in and out for Armenians and now they

have replaced those fake protesters with armed military and they're basically

trying to starve people inside the panica. If you like what we're doing

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All right Joe. So there's another yet another awful situation going on in Armenia specifically

within Artsak or Karabak, whatever people want to call it.

They've well or Karabak, whatever people want to call it.

They've, well, the Azeris have blockaded the latching corridor.

Maybe explain to us what's going on there and why that is such a bad situation? Yeah, so for starters, the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Ardzak are two different things.

And the Lachin corridor, that one road that leads from the Republic of Armenia to Arthak or about whichever is effectively the only way that's 150,000 people who live there get any supplies whatsoever.

There is an airport in Stepanekert, but it is areas have threatened to shoot down anything that flies near it.

So airborne cargo is impossible.

So this one road is the only way that around 150,000 people get food, medical supplies, everything.

And we're currently in the middle of winter.

Winter in Nagano-Karabak is significantly worse than it is here.

So they have it there they've been strangled it's been about a month now.

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