Levon Aronian: I urge everyone in their power to help my homeland by spreading the message and finding ways to help the people in a great need

Chess player Levon Aronian wrote on Facebook

At this moment while the whole world is preparing for the winter holidays, 120000 thousand of Armenians living in Nagorno Karabakh are in a blockade for 10 days already. They are facing existential threat from Azerbaijan who are using different illegal methods to block the only road connecting Stepanakert to Armenia.

Armenia had devastating losses during the 44 day war in 2020. The peace agreement signed between Armenia ,Azerbaijan and Russia specified that the road will remain open and will serve all countries in the region. Right now the Russian peacekeeping forces are being taunted by Azerbaijani “ecology activist” that block the road under different false premises.

While we see different organizations condemning this provocative actions by Azerbaijani officials , time is passing , the kids can’t come back home, hospitals are struggling with supplies and the food shortage is imminent.

I urge everyone in their power to help my homeland by spreading the message and finding ways to help the people in a great need.