Fighting nears key town as Azerbaijani forces advance in Karabakh

Explosions sound in the distance as Kamo Hayrapetyan kneels to pray at the Holy Saviour Cathedral in Nagorno-Karabakh’s historic town of Shusha. Dressed in camouflage and white sneakers, the 60-year-old Armenian reservist lights candles and crosses himself under the partially collapsed roof of the church, which was hit by Azerbaijani rocket fire a month ago. “They bomb us every day, it has become a habit for them,” says Hayrapetyan, whose own…