“In response to the Armenia fictional information that appeared in the press, it again confirms its fundamental position, according to which the territory of the republic on can be used by third states to carry out military operations against any of the neighboring states,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anya Badalyan.
On July 5, Ukrainian military intelligence indicated that the Russian Federation accelerated the military base in Gyumri for pressure on the countries of the South Caucasus. The invaders are recruiting personnel for sending to Armenia among military personnel serving in the Rostov and Volgograd regions of the Russian Federation, in North Ossetia and Adyghe, as well as temporarily occupied Crimea.
“The deployment of Russian troops in Armenia is an element of the Kremlin’s integrated strategy aimed at destabilizing the global security situation. Together with inciting interethnic conflict, Moscow is building up a military presence in the Caucasus. Probably, a deterioration in relations between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation was being prepared in advance,” said the representative of the GUR of Ukraine Andrei Yusov.
Context
The conflict between Russia and Azerbaijan erupted after the Russian FSB held raids in the houses of Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg on June 27 and detained about 50 people. Raids were carried out as part of the investigative actions in the death of the Azerbaijani merchant Unis Pashayev in 2001. Some of the detainees were sent under arrest, traces of beatings were noticed on them.
Among the detainees were several people from the Safarov family. Caspian cafe, owned by Safarov, calls the investigation “headquarters of the ethnic group”, It wrote E1.ru. Two of them, the brothers Ziyadin and Huseyn, died after the visit of the security forces. In the investigation of the Russian Federation They saidthat one of them died “as a result of heart failure”, the causes of the death of the other are “established”.
July 1, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case on the fact of torture and intentional murder with special cruelty in the Russian Federation of Azerbaijani citizens and persons of Azerbaijani origin. They noted that, in addition to the two dead brothers, there were other detained Azerbaijanis, “received bodily harm of varying degrees as a result of the same torture.”
On July 1, Minval.az published evidence that the airliner of Azerbaijan Airlines, which executed a flight from Baku to Grozny and fell on December 25, 2024 in Kazakhstan, fired at the Russian air defense system by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
