After the Aghdam region was handed over to Azerbaijan, the village of Parukh in the Askeran district of Artsakh has been deprived of the main road leading to the village.
“The Turks came, stood on the road, and said it is theirs. In Soviet times, when there was a border, what was under the road was theirs, not the road itself, but now they are standing above it as well, on the road, and have closed it. They came and closed it on the very day Aghdam was handed over,” said Vardan Mikayelyan, the head of Parukh village, in an interview with NEWS.am.
To reach Parukh, the villagers use another road passing through the forest, which, however, is in a dilapidated condition.
“We have fixed it up a bit, but not every vehicle can go back and forth; it is muddy. Now we have brought machinery to repair it,” the village head noted.
Parukh is now about 500 meters from the Azerbaijani border. According to the community head, the villagers are concerned about their security and for that reason have not returned to the village since the war.
“We had 82 residents; now 3 people live there — one from each family, and that only to look after the livestock,” the village head said.
Let us recall that according to the trilateral statement, the Aghdam region was also handed over to Azerbaijan. Within a few days it became clear that 7 villages of the present Martakert district, which had once been part of the Aghdam region, would also be handed over. It was after their handover that the village of Parukh became adjacent to the border. Near Parukh village is the village of Khramort, through which the main road leading to Parukh passes.
