00:00 Escaping with everything they can carry.
00:02 The rumble of mortar fire falling on the streets nearby.
00:06 This is downtown Stepanakert,
00:08 with more footage now emerging of the extent of Wednesday's bombing.
00:12 There are no military objects here, only residential houses.
00:16 In the building there are pensioners and disabled people.
00:20 Until the announcement of a ceasefire came at 1pm,
00:23 people here moved and lived in fear of being targeted.
00:27 Here, parents transport their children to the hospital.
00:30 At the entrance, ambulances drop off victims injured by mortar fragments.
00:34 A provisional report suggests there have been dozens of deaths and hundreds injured.
00:39 Despite the cessation of bombing, people here are terrified of the near future.
00:43 They call it ceasefire, I call it black hours,
00:46 because these hours we are reaching some lists of the fallen soldiers.
00:53 And when you are reading these lists you can see your friend's name,
00:58 your relatives, just people who used to live here,
01:06 who used to be happy here, who used to, I don't know, just live in their homeland.
01:14 Azerbaijan's 24-hour assault on the territory came in the midst of a humanitarian crisis here,
01:19 after a nine-month blockade.
01:21 Most of the people spent in shelters,
01:24 not only people from the capital, Stepanakert, but also from several villages.
01:31 The last three months were very heavy for us,
01:36 because even humanitarian aid sent by several organisations and from Armenia weren't reaching us.
01:47 The Azerbaijan government claimed it was a specific operation,
01:51 but elderly residents show us their bombed-out homes, saying it was indiscriminate.
01:55 Thousands of ethnic Armenians are now sheltering at a military airport close to the border,
01:59 controlled by Russian peacekeepers,
02:01 who say they're providing food and shelter in the midst of the evacuation.
02:04 evacuation.
