Activists block a road from Stepanakert, the capital of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, to Azerbaijani Aghdam offered by the Azeri officials as a way for humanitarian aid to the region demanding the reopening of the blockaded Lachin Corridor linking Karabakh to Armenia and to decry crisis conditions in the region, in Askeran on July 18, 2023. Karabakh has been at the centre of a decades-long dispute between the two countries, which have fought two wars over the mountainous territory. (Photo by Ani BALAYAN / AFP) (Photo by ANI BALAYAN/AFP via Getty Images)