Refugee from the Nagorno-Karabakh region Vera Petrosyan, 70, a retired history teacher, speaks to a journalist outside a temporary accommodation centre in the town of Goris, Armenia, September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze
KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) - Vera Petrosyan, a 70-year-old retired teacher, said she and her family fled their home in Nagorno-Karabakh with just the clothes they were wearing and does not believe she will ever be able to return after Azerbaijani forces seized the region last week.
"I left everything behind. I don't know what is in store for me. I have nothing. I don't want anything," she told Reuters on Tuesday at the large Soviet-era hotel on the Armenian side of the border with Azerbaijan that is now her home.
