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“This is Stepanakert, capital city of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, where about 60 thousand people reside, 90 percent of which are Armenians. Despite the war situation in Artsakh, banks, magazines, hotels are flourishing here, and pupils attend schools,” journalists of the Ukrainian «ICTV» internet-based TV channel reports the daily routine of Stepanakert residents and share their impression of the visit to Karabakh.

“I am often joking we have more banks per person than in London. All possible banking transactions are implemented here, like in the rest of the world, yet the only difference is the absence of a stock exchange,” Hasmik Arushanyan, Stepanaker resident, tells the journalist.

The report goes on saying a new generation of people have grown up in Artsakh who are not aware of the war, although the conflict has escalated over the recent period.

Narine, another resident of Stepanakert, who turned out to be a graduate of Dnepropetrovsk Cultural College, reflected on the escalation of the conflict in early April of this year.

“We know our guys heroically resisted for several days and now he feel calm and safe. I think most people will continue living here, developing, getting education and forming families,” she noted.

The reporter tells that thousand so volunteers from Armenia rushed to Artsakh in those days.

“People from Armenian regions, communities were joining volunteer units in mass, some by their own car, others - by buses headed for Artsakhsaying we are here and you may count on us,” Dmitri Beckov recalls.

In the footage made in Shushi, the Ukrainian journalist recalls that the town greatly suffered during the 1990s Karabakh war, yet today it is developing gradually. Shushi resident Hrach Stepanyan tells, before the war he lived in Baku and had to leave because of the erupted massacres.

“Armenian neighborhoods in Baku were attacked suddenly and a new massacre occurred in Baku after the Sumgait pogroms,” Stepanyan recalls.

“We are building our state, democratic society, our economy. We have nothing to do but to start afresh albeit facing incredible hardships. Nevertheless, the people is obliged toward their own state,” NKR Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan says in an interview to the TV Channel.

“The monument which is named “We Are Our Mountains” symbolizes the unity of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. The people of Nagorno Karabakh have one wish - to live in peace without fear,” the Ukraine journalist concludes the reportage standing next to the famous monument.