Russian expert: "Unleashing new war for Karabakh to fully discredit Russia's policy in South Caucasus"

"Certain forces interested in weakening of Russia's influence on the region keep on developing null scenarios. This time they started saying allegedly in 2008 Moscow transferred weapons and military hardware to Yerevan worth 800 million dollars without compensation', the expert said. Azerbaijani news agencies provided the list of a great variety of weapons and military hardware (mostly outdated) allegedly transferred to Yerevan to surprise uninformed Internet users.

The expert mentioned the statements by Colonel Alexander Drobishevsky, Acting Head of the Russian Defense Ministry Department for Information and Press that no weapons were delivered to Armenia and the reports by Azerbaijani media do not correspond reality. "We evaluate such reports as provocation", Drobishevsky declared. He also underlined that Colonel Aleksander Petrunin, who was mentioned as a prior source of the above reports by the Azerbaijani ANS, is not competent to give such comments to anyone. For his part, Press Secretary of Armenian Defense Ministry Seyran Shakhsouvaryan refuted the reports as well.

The expert is sure that such methods to involve oversea forces in the conflicts they had provoked aim to break Russia's efforts to maintain peace in the region", Yegorov says.

/ArmInfo/