Azerbaijani servicemen stand guard at a checkpoint at the Lachin corridor, the Armenian-populated breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region's only land link with Armenia, as Azerbaijani environmental activists protest against what they claim the illegal mining, on December 27, 2022. - Azerbaijani activists who have blocked the sole road connecting Karabakh with Armenia rejected on December 26 Yerevan's accusations of provoking a humanitarian crisis in the enclave. But locals in Karabakh interviewed by AFP decried the dire consequences of the blockade, which they say is aimed at chasing ethnic Armenians from the region. (Photo by TOFIK BABAYEV / AFP)