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ORAC
14th Oct 2022, 06:34
https://twitter.com/thomasvlinge/status/1580279128766369792?s=61&t=TelAjmrmmHZKGemF9MHZhw

Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to sign a formal peace deal which includes an official delimitation of the border by the end of the year.

I have moved this out of the Russia/Ukraine thread as it is a unique topic.
Over the past few years one of the MilAv interest points in this conflict is how military drones and other UAVs shaped the battlefield and the results.
One hopes that some of the membership have insights to offer about this conflict, particularly the drone/UAV angle, even though it will (hopefully) see its resolution in the near future.
T28B

Asturias56
14th Oct 2022, 14:28
Delimitation is a tough business - people arguing fr days in dark rooms over "traditional rights" etc etc

Demarcation is a lot more fun - out in the open air putting up markers

ORAC
12th Mar 2023, 12:08
https://twitter.com/faytuks/status/1634873898373201920?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


​​​​​​​Armenian news site Lurer reports that Azerbaijan has accumulated a large number of troops and military equipment on the Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh border with Azerbaijan. Bayraktar drones have reportedly also been brought near the border.

Lonewolf_50
12th Mar 2023, 21:27
Truce would appear to be in doubt. :(

Asturias56
13th Mar 2023, 09:10
Spring - time to dust off the kit and the centuries old arguments

ORAC
25th Mar 2023, 16:38
https://twitter.com/faytuks/status/1639664140951121920?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


BREAKING: The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have crossed the line of contact in the Shusha region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Russian peacekeepers are taking measures to prevent the escalation of the "crisis situation", Russia's Defense Ministry says - TASS

​​​​​​​Russia's MoD says that they have told Azerbaijan to withdraw their troops from the new positions they have captured.

Russia's MoD also says that a ceasefire violation was recorded in the Martuni region of Nagorno-Karabakh…

Wokkafans
25th Mar 2023, 18:19
More trouble brewing.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1639673677225549826?s=20​​​​​​​

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1639673677225549826?s=20

Low average
28th Mar 2023, 06:56
This looks like the standard Russian playbook again. They will continue to assist Azerbaijan - while pretending to be neutral peace keepers to the world.

Armenia is a fledgeling Democracy, and has shown a great deal of progress in the last few years, so under great threat from Putin. It's also a third of the size.

Sepp
28th Mar 2023, 19:02
This looks like the standard Russian playbook again. They will continue to assist Azerbaijan - while pretending to be neutral peace keepers to the world.

Armenia is a fledgeling Democracy, and has shown a great deal of progress in the last few years, so under great threat from Putin. It's also a third of the size.

Does Russia not suupport Armenia in this conflict? That is the traditional axis. Azerbaijan is closer to Turkey.

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-russia-supports-armenia-against-azerbaijan-in-the-caucasus-conflict-38321

beardy
28th Mar 2023, 21:03
Does Russia not suupport Armenia in this conflict? That is the traditional axis. Azerbaijan is closer to Turkey.

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-russia-supports-armenia-against-azerbaijan-in-the-caucasus-conflict-38321
Russia has a long history of playing both sides. A weakened Armenia would be easier to integrate into Russia, so helping Azerbaijan to weaken Armenia makes sense to Russia.

Low average
28th Mar 2023, 22:19
No, all the evidence points towards Russia supporting Azerbaijan - an Authoritarian state rapidly gaining a reputation for murdering the opposition and journalists.

Armenia have made strides towards being a free society. Russia will end that.

Russia will use their psyops expertise to masquerade as neutral peace keepers for as long as they can get away with it, forcing back the Armenians and slowing the decision making of any potential defender until its too late. It's their classic move.

Sepp
28th Mar 2023, 22:30
Beardy, Low average, thank you for your insight.

Asturias56
29th Mar 2023, 08:12
My Armenian friends think Russia backs the Azeri's

ORAC
12th Apr 2023, 06:59
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1645789162132619267?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


Heavy Fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Forces is being reported North of the Village of Tegh near the Lachin Corridor in Eastern Armenia; what started as a small skirmish earlier now reportedly involves artillery and possible heavy armor, Fighting took place near Tegh during the Border Clashes in 2021 as well.

Significant Casualties are currently being reported by Armenian and Azerbaijani Media.

Initial reports now that aircraft/UAVs are actively involved in the fighting. Armenian forces are shelling the positions of the Azerbaijani army across the border near Tegh utilizing 120mm mortars and 152mm self-propelled and fixed artillery.

ORAC
12th Apr 2023, 07:53
Deputy Chief of the General Staff for the Armenian armed forces, Armen Gyozalyan, was reported as being injured, along with several other soldiers being killed, when they approached Azerbaijani positions for negotiations, at which point the Azerbaijani forces opened-fire on the group.

Armenian sources are now reporting that Gyozalyan has died from his Injuries.

Low average
9th Sep 2023, 21:48
No, all the evidence points towards Russia supporting Azerbaijan - an Authoritarian state rapidly gaining a reputation for murdering the opposition and journalists.

Armenia have made strides towards being a free society. Russia will end that.

Russia will use their psyops expertise to masquerade as neutral peace keepers for as long as they can get away with it, forcing back the Armenians and slowing the decision making of any potential defender until its too late. It's their classic move.

Looks like it's now happening. Russia is moving against Armenia.

ORAC
9th Sep 2023, 22:28
https://x.com/officejjsmart/status/1700545131428884893?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


Not a good sign:

The Azeri 🇦🇿 troops headed to the Armenian 🇦🇲 border have Ƶ painted on their vehicles.…


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ORAC
9th Sep 2023, 23:00
https://x.com/officejjsmart/status/1700596758391198162?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


… Iran’s President 🇮🇷, in a call to Armenia 🇦🇲, has said any change in the border region is a “red line” for Iran…..

⚡️ Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan 🇹🇷: “If Iran 🇮🇷 interferes in Azerbaijan's 🇦🇿 affairs, the Turkish Army 🇹🇷 will respond quickly.”

Asturias56
10th Sep 2023, 07:04
Just what we need - a regional multi-country conflict....................... :(

Low average
10th Sep 2023, 07:16
Just like Hitler, Putin will push in any direction he senses weakness.

Asturias56
10th Sep 2023, 09:39
I doubt he's really involved in this action - this argument goes a lot further back than Mr Putin. He may be encouraging one side but there'll be little Russian help as they're in over their necks in Ukraine.

The interesting thing is Turkey and Iran now squaring up to each other

ORAC
10th Sep 2023, 11:38
They’ve been squaring up against each other in Syria for the last 5 years as both vie to become the perceived major power in the ME, this is just another proxy….

Lyneham Lad
10th Sep 2023, 14:00
Seemingly all to do with something called the Lachin corridor.

Nagorno-Karabakh routes reopen in Lachin corridor deal, say Azeri and Armenian sides (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/10/nagorno-karabakh-routes-reopen-in-lachin-corridor-deal-say-azeri-and-armenian-sides?CMP=share_btn_link) (The Guardian). Extract:-
Azerbaijan’s government and separatist Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh (https://www.theguardian.com/world/nagorno-karabakh)appeared to strike a deal reopening two disputed transport links including a key route known as the Lachin corridor.

The moves – initially reported by Armenia’s Armenpress state news agency and confirmed by Azerbaijan (https://www.theguardian.com/world/azerbaijan) – appear at least partly to grant the latter’s decades-old demand to restore transport links between Azeri government-held territory and Nagorno-Karabakh, where Armenians seized control in the 1990s.

Karabakh is recognised globally as part of Azerbaijan, but has been controlled by its population of about 120,000 ethnic Armenians since a war that coincided with the breakup of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 90s.

Azerbaijan recaptured large swathes of Nagorno-Karabakh in a 2020 war, and for the past nine months has exerted pressure by restricting access to Armenia through the Lachin corridor (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/inside-nagorno-karabakh-blockade-armenia-azerbaijan).

West Coast
10th Sep 2023, 14:56
I doubt he's really involved in this action - this argument goes a lot further back than Mr Putin. He may be encouraging one side but there'll be little Russian help as they're in over their necks in Ukraine.

The interesting thing is Turkey and Iran now squaring up to each other


Vlad still has the margin to inject himself into conflicts beyond Ukraine, look at Syria and Africa as a start. There are forces other than the traditional Russian military and Wagner for him the spread the flames of war.m

Disorder elsewhere better promotes Russian goals in Ukraine as well.

Low average
10th Sep 2023, 16:38
Russia has just summoned Armenia's Ambassador to protest a series of "unfriendly steps" - they've signed the Rome Statute of the ICC, the PM's wife has visited Kyiv and are taking part in a NATO exercise next week...also the propoganda war is ramping up with the usual Russian social media posts attempting to confuse the picture of who's allied with who. Must just be a co-incidence that Azerbijan is now advancing with Russian "Peacekeepers" in lock step.

Asturias56
11th Sep 2023, 03:05
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict is as good an explanation as any

The area has two interwoven groups of different ancestry and religions and both sides seem unable to live with the others - its the Balkans again.

The problems have gone on for years and will no doubt continue long after Mr Putin has departed the scene.

It doesn't help when either side turns to a bigger neighbour (Russia, Iran, Turkey etc) who decide to meddle for their own ends

ORAC
19th Sep 2023, 11:19
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1704070686061346859?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


BREAKING:

Large scale fighting has just started in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Artillery and suicide drones are in action by both sides.

It’s possible that another war between Azerbaijan and Armenia is starting in front of our eyes.

​​​​​​​https://x.com/neilphauer/status/1704074437975331119?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


Azerbaijan has launched a new war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Below is their statement announcing it. Multiple videos show artillery bombardment of Stepanakert. It is here.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/794x1186/image_0e6ba197f1d0c804e4de4f69ae40d884157f64a3.jpeg
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ORAC
19th Sep 2023, 11:24
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66851975

Azerbaijan launches operation against Nagorno-Karabakh

NutLoose
19th Sep 2023, 11:26
yup

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1704074446959477186

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1704074446959477186

Lonewolf_50
19th Sep 2023, 16:07
So much for that truce. :uhoh:

Asturias56
19th Sep 2023, 16:54
need to get moving before the weather turns rough

Lyneham Lad
19th Sep 2023, 16:55
In The Guardian.
Why is there dispute over control of Nagorno-Karabakh? (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/why-is-there-armenia-azerbaijan-dispute-over-control-of-nagorno-karabakh?CMP=share_btn_link)

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What is happening?Azerbaijan has said its armed forces have launched what it called “local anti-terrorist activities” (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/azerbaijan-launches-anti-terrorist-campaign-in-disputed-nagorno-karabakh-region) in the Nagorno-Karabakh region to restore constitutional order by disarming and forcing the withdrawal of Armenian military formations there.

Nagorno-Karabakh is recognised internationally as Azerbaijan’s territory but has a mostly Armenian population who have resisted Azerbaijani rule for more than a century. In 1991, the region of about 150,000 people declared independence and since then it has ruled itself – with Armenian support – as the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh.

On Tuesday, as the operation began, Azerbaijan’s defence ministry spoke of its intention to “disarm and secure the withdrawal of formations of Armenia’s armed forces from our territories, [and] neutralise their military infrastructure”.

Despite signs in the past of possible progress towards peace, one of Europe’s “frozen conflicts” has erupted again.

Click the link for full article, maps etc.

ORAC
19th Sep 2023, 17:45
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1088x1314/image_15fa87277e8abdfc59028a0092320e1aa0acbfe5.png

unmanned_droid
19th Sep 2023, 23:54
Opening up a second front always works....imo purely the work of the russians as a regional escalation to distract both at home and abroad. Good luck Armenia.

ORAC
20th Sep 2023, 06:25
Shows how little Russia is now feared or respected as it weakens. I wonder if Chechnya and others are watching…

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1704324189790908479?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


BREAKING:

A Russian military base has been destroyed by Azerbaijani shelling in the Karabakh region.

ORAC
20th Sep 2023, 08:28
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1704406919409004822?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


After yesterday’s artillery barrage and drone strikes, the Army of Azerbaijan is now moving into the Karabakh region.

It seems that they have taken Charektar and Getavan in the west and the Sarsang dam in the east.


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1213x615/image_e0fe3aeb5e93d22ed9b7bd9d5fc7ece713195807.png
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Asturias56
20th Sep 2023, 10:42
as ever getting in is (relatively) easy - its staying there that proves to be the problem

ORAC
20th Sep 2023, 11:37
as ever getting in is (relatively) easy - its staying there that proves to be the problem


From what I’ve read their intentions seem to be to deport all the ethnic Armenians in the region to “safety” at the Armenian border and replace them with ethnic Azeris.

ORAC
20th Sep 2023, 11:43
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66863702

Nagorno-Karabakh forces agree Azerbaijan demand to disarm

Lonewolf_50
20th Sep 2023, 12:10
In The Guardian.
Why is there dispute over control of Nagorno-Karabakh? (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/why-is-there-armenia-azerbaijan-dispute-over-control-of-nagorno-karabakh?CMP=share_btn_link)
Snippet:-
Click the link for full article, maps etc. If it's mostly Armenians living there, so how did the UN not come to their aid as they did in Kosovo? Double standards much?

ORAC
20th Sep 2023, 12:38
Russia is trying to spin the end of the "war" as a triumph for the Russian peace keepers*

Even though their positions were bombed, and they are now awaiting some sort of deal under which will be allowed to leave…..

https://x.com/jackfought_1/status/1704325097795011017?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


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​​​​​​​https://x.com/rybar_force/status/1704429117259571557?s=20

​​​​​​​https://x.com/ragexwar/status/1704426436264628390?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A

Lonewolf_50
20th Sep 2023, 13:00
OK, so a ceasefire has been agreed for the moment.
Nagorno-Karabakh accepts ceasefire proposal made by Russian peacekeepers | CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/asia/nagorno-karabakh-russia-ceasefire-intl/index.html)The ceasefire was due to begin at 1 p.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) Wednesday, Nagorno-Karabakh’s presidential office announced.
“An agreement was reached on the withdrawal of the remaining units and servicemen of the armed forces of Armenia from the deployment zone of the Russian peacekeeping troops, the dissolution and complete disarmament of the armed formations,” it said in a statement.
Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said it had agreed to suspend its operation, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Azerbaijan said officials would meet representatives of the Armenian community in Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday in the city of Yevlakh, “to discuss reintegration issues under the constitution and laws of Azerbaijan.”

Low average
20th Sep 2023, 13:39
We know that Russia does not desire peace, only conquest. Supporting Azerbaijan is the way they plan to achieve it. Step-by-step.

Asturias56
20th Sep 2023, 15:18
I suspect the Russians know ALL about this conflict - they can keep it boiling away at low level but they're not stupid enough to get directly involved. It dates back years before the Soviet Union - it's like getting into N.Ireland, Yemen or Afghanistan - easy to get in, bloody difficult to get out.

The West isn't involved and is very unlikely to be so - the Russians are more likely to stir up the Turks and the Iranians rather than NATO

Low average
20th Sep 2023, 17:38
Russia's military is quite weak, they never want to get directly involved, so will primarily use their standard strategy of confuse, deny and lie to achieve an easy win without ever having to (openly) fire a shot.

Arguably, its been quite successful - Ukraine (2014), Syria, Belarus, but recently failed when NATO derailed their hopes for an easy win in Ukraine.

Pretty much, whatever they say - assume the opposite and you can't go far wrong. "Peacekeepers" you say? "Allies with whom you say?"

At the end of the day, Azerbaijan - an authoritarian state like Russia, is taking land with a "Special Military Operation" and Russian "peacekeepers", while Armenia is surrendering, hosting a NATO exercise and hoping to join the EU...

ORAC
20th Sep 2023, 18:43
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1704544073682493551?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


BREAKING:

Azerbaijani forces just killed 8 Russian soldiers in Karabakh.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1704552634932216280?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


Russia’s Defense Ministry announces that 8 Russian “peace keeping soldiers” have been killed in an Azerbaijani attack on a Russian vehicle in Nagorno-Karabakh
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Low average
20th Sep 2023, 19:21
"Russia's defence ministry announced..."

Asturias56
21st Sep 2023, 06:36
"Armenia is surrendering, hosting a NATO exercise and hoping to join the EU..."

Doubt the latter will ever happen.

ORAC
21st Sep 2023, 13:41
Ivan Kovgan, the deputy commander of the Russian “peacekeeping contingent” in Karabakh was among the 8 Russian soldiers killed by the Azerbaijani Army yesterday.

Kovgan was also the deputy commander of the submarine forces of the Russian Northern Fleet.

ORAC
24th Sep 2023, 20:53
https://x.com/michaelh992/status/1705897913010831626?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan on September 25 at the invitation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

This is likely to fuel concerns that Ankara is pushing its Azerbaijani ally to capture the Zangezur corridor - which could lead to a regional escalation.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1213x682/image_2dd29adb47a0c65d34aee0558cac0f62acd48ed6.png
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ORAC
26th Sep 2023, 07:58
https://x.com/neilphauer/status/1706380031344173309?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


​​​​​​​Azerbaijan's president today: 'Western Zangezur' (i.e. Armenia's Syunik province) was 'unfairly separated' from Azerbaijan by the Soviet Union. A clear irrentist threat for Azerbaijan's next war.

ORAC
26th Sep 2023, 08:12
https://x.com/neilphauer/status/1706330612867444941?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


Don't think that this war ends here. Azerbaijan is openly telegraphing their intentions to push further into Armenia itself, especially the country's southern Syunik province (where all the refugees from Karabakh are presently arriving).

As Armenians are leaving Karabakh, right now a public hearing on "Return to West Azerbaijan: Legal aspects" is being held in the Azerbaijani parliament. It was already announced on 22 September

Asturias56
26th Sep 2023, 11:49
well the west isn't going to do anything - so it's up to Russia and Iran to support Armenia.... quite odd really

Low average
26th Sep 2023, 13:40
well the west isn't going to do anything - so it's up to Russia and Iran to support Armenia.... quite odd really

Russia will support Armenia right into Azerbaijan's loving embrace...

Asturias56
26th Sep 2023, 15:41
Todays "Times" editorial today reckons the Azeris have looked at Russia's current capability and decided its a great time to move in as Putin can't do anything to stop them.

Low average
26th Sep 2023, 18:31
Todays "Times" editorial today reckons the Azeris have looked at Russia's current capability and decided its a great time to move in as Putin can't do anything to stop them.

Putin doesn't want them to stop. Azerbaijan is a client state like Belarus.

Lyneham Lad
26th Sep 2023, 18:53
Todays "Times" editorial today reckons the Azeris have looked at Russia's current capability and decided its a great time to move in as Putin can't do anything to stop them.
The leading article in Monday's Times:-
The Caucasus used to mark the edge of the Tsarist empire, a place of tribal feuds, high-flying birds of prey, of war and exile. Now, as the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave comes ablaze again, as thousands of Armenians take flight from the forces of Azerbaijan, this mountainous region seems to embody the core weakness of its supposed protector, President Putin.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenians, though it is recognised as being legally part of Azerbaijan. The tensions never disappeared: there was a war in the early 1990s and a second flare-up in 2020 when Azerbaijan used Turkish drones to immobilise Armenia’s Russian-supplied tank army. The Kremlin brokered an armistice and sent in 2,200 Russian peacekeepers.

But the present clash (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/armenians-flee-as-azerbaijan-fighters-seize-disputed-nagorno-karabakh-cgrt7fb8f) has left the Armenians bitterly disappointed with Moscow. The peacekeepers did little; there seemed to Armenians to be a singular lack of interest in their plight. Demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in Yerevan denounce Mr Putin. Armenians openly speculate that the Russian leader is content to sit back cynically and wait for local anger to turn against the country’s prime minister, the pro-western Nikol Pashinyan. And they calculate that Moscow, entangled in a long, costly war with Ukraine, has no desire to engage in another war on its periphery.

The lesson for Russia’s erstwhile allies is clear: as long as it is engaged in its bloody campaign against Kyiv, it does not have the energy or bandwidth to deter attack elsewhere. If there ever was a Pax Russica it has shrivelled and died in the late Putin era. Mr Putin, viewed from the Russian periphery, is an increasingly unimpressive peacekeeper.

The leadership of Azerbaijan made what must have seemed a rational decision on the basis of observable facts. Mr Putin entertaining North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, a global pariah, in the hope of gaining more artillery shells? A sure indicator that the Russian war machine is faltering. The sudden absence of Russian threats to use tactical nuclear weapons? Almost certainly the result of Chinese displeasure. So much for the limitless friendship. The mutiny of the Wagner group, the sacking of Russian generals? Unmistakable signs of an internal power struggle. Sporadic Ukrainian attacks on Russian airfields and other deep targets? Disturbing proof of Russian military limitations.

Russia, in other words, is anything but a powerful ally. Two senior US officials, including the head of USAID, Samantha Power, have already landed in Armenia. The point of their mission, apart from assessing the immediate needs of 120,000 ethnic Armenians on the move, was to demonstrate Russia’s limitations as an ally. Under the Russian-led ceasefire the ethnic Armenians of Karabakh agreed after only a day of furious fighting to lay down arms and enter “reintegration” talks with Baku. Azerbaijan says it will provide constitutional protection to ethnic Armenians there who accept its control. But the Armenian government is unlikely to accept those terms.

Mr Putin’s attention has wandered and his lack of loyalty to neighbours and traditional allies like Armenia will be rewarded in kind. The outcome, say Armenian analysts, could be a breakdown in talks and a new broader war, dragging in Turkey, Iran and perhaps even Russia by the end of next month . Wars that kick off in the Caucasus rarely stay in the mountains for long.
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Low average
26th Sep 2023, 20:12
There is zero chance Russia will ever support Armenia - a Parliamentary Democracy, hosting NATO and about to ratify the jurisdiction of the ICC.

Moscow threatened them with reprisals back in March. Here it is.

ORAC
14th Oct 2023, 07:31
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/blinken-warned-lawmakers-azerbaijan-may-invade-armenia-in-coming-weeks-00121500

Blinken warned lawmakers Azerbaijan may invade Armenia in coming weeks

Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned a small group of lawmakers last week that his department is tracking the possibility that Azerbaijan could soon invade Armenia, according to two people familiar with the conversation.

The call indicates the depth of concern in the administration about Azerbaijan’s operations against a breakaway region in the west of the country and the possibility of the conflict spreading…..

Nagorno-Karabakh is not the only territorial dispute between the two Caucasus countries. Baku has proposed a route to the Nakhichevan exclave that would cut through Armenia’s southern Syunik region, known in Azerbaijani as Zangezur, and enable road traffic to bypass Iran.

Aliyev has said “we will be implementing the Zangezur Corridor, whether Armenia wants it or not.”….

Low average
15th Feb 2024, 16:16
Further indications that Russian backed Azerbaijan will shortly invade Western leaning Armenia. Appearing on various media, including X.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1758175657866019130?t=hzeOK6rcAjSkKw0bzIP6Bg&s=19

ORAC
9th Mar 2024, 15:10
https://x.com/newsbharatnet/status/1766383126375227717?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


On 2 March 2024, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan advised that Armenia would officially "apply to become a candidate for EU membership in the coming days, within a month at most".

On 5 March, Pashinyan stated that Armenia would apply for EU candidacy by Autumn 2024 at the latest.

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ORAC
9th Mar 2024, 17:43
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1766498867304862038?s=61&t=rmEeUn68HhlFHGKbTPQr_A


BREAKING:

Azerbaijan has demanded that Armenia immediately hands over control of 4 villages to Azerbaijan.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1213x808/image_adcf76a5ec7628948540dd22c916734fdda875c5.png
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