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The Lachin corridor blockade

Dec 2022 – Sep 2023Key eventLachin corridor

HumanitarianPoliticalArmenia–Azerbaijan / Karabakh legacy

Azerbaijani government-aligned activists, later replaced by a formal checkpoint, block the only road between Armenia and the remnant Armenian-populated zone of Karabakh. Food, fuel and medicine degrade over nine months despite ICJ provisional orders to reopen the route; Russian peacekeepers nominally responsible for the corridor do not reopen it.

Why it mattersThe blockade demonstrated that the 2020 guarantees were unenforceable and softened the enclave for the September 2023 offensive — a siege conducted below the threshold that would trigger anyone's intervention.

Confidence: HighSources: International Crisis Group ↗ · Reuters ↗ · International Committee of the Red Cross ↗Methodology Corrections

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Part of

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Karabakh conflictBlockade, one day of fighting, and dissolution

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Russian peacekeeping contingent · atlasAffected organisationhigh confidence

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Blockade → displacement → the files that outlast itCivilian impact

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