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An elderly woman forced to flee Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in the wake of Azerrbaijan's seizure of her ancestral land, says she has no hope to return home one day.

"The Turks [referring to Azeri troops] entered our village first. We left our home, I don't remember exactly how, we are still in shock," Angin Zakaryan, who was displaced from the Martakert region, told Panorama.am on Monday.

Asked how it felt when Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday raised the country's national flag in Stepanakert, she said: "How should we have felt? It’s shocking. We had to leave our homeland, our homes. Living here even in diamonds doesn’t matter, our home is there..."

Panorama.am also addressed this question to other women from Artsakh. Holding back their tears, they said that they couldn't talk about the matter.

According to Angin Zakaryan, it seems like a bad dream, but there is no hope for the future either.

"It’s like a bad dream. Maybe we will go back home someday, but there is no hope anymore," she noted.