Russia blames the Ukraine war, Europe to delay the supply of weapons to Ally Armenia | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Armenia has long relied on Russian weapons in its bitter dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan.

Senior diplomats in Russia blamed the war in Ukraine for influence in providing weapons to Armenia, and expressed concern that Moscow’s ally for a long time will now look to the West for military support instead.

Speaking in Yerevan on the second day of a two -day visit to Armenia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that some Russian weapons contracts with the former Soviet Republic have been late or have been resetting due to the pressure created by the war in Ukraine.

Armenia has long relied on Russian weapons in its bitter dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan, who fought against them a series of conflicts since the late 1980s.

“We are currently in a situation, as happened throughout history, we have to fight all Europe,” Lavrov said, in a thorny reference to European support for Ukraine in response to the Russian invasion.

“Our Armenian friends realize that in such circumstances, we cannot fulfill all our obligations on time.”

Since Russia has failed to achieve the arms contracts that Armenia paid, Yerevan has increasingly turned into countries such as France and India for military supplies.

Lavrov said that Russia would not oppose these growing relations, but said it has raised concerns about its strategic intentions for its traditional ally.

He said: “When an ally turns into a country like France, which leads the hostile camp and whose president and ministers speak frankly with hatred towards Russia, it raises questions.”

Armenia has strengthened its relations with the West amid the recent continuous tensions with Azerbaijan, the repercussions of the last major eruption in the conflict and Russia’s role in this.

In September 2023, Azerbaijan launched a Military operation To restore Nagorno-karabakh, a separatist pocket in Azerbaijan with the Armenian ethnic population mostly who separated from Baku with the support of the Armenians amid the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Armenia accused the Russian peace keepers of failure to protect more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians who fled from the region, supported by contracts of lack of confidence, wars, mutual hatred and violence, after Azerbaijan was the lightning of lightning.

Yerevan also suspended her participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a security umbrella led by Russia to the former Soviet countries, last year, saying that it would not participate or fund the coalition.