29.09.2023, Yerevan.
The Armenian authorities wanted to “surrender” Nagorno-Karabakh and blame Russia for it, but they failed to do so, as Moscow has been controlling the region for a long time, political observer Tigran Kocharyan said on the air of Sputnik Armenia on September 29.
The expert noted that in November 2020, after Russia sent a peacekeeping contingent to Karabakh, the Armenian authorities decided to recognize Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan and worsened relations with Russia. This was expressed in insults of the Russian side at various protests.
“All this was done without realizing that Russia’s non-participation in certain situations, its neutrality would be disastrous for the Armenian people,” Kocharyan said.
According to him, this was manifested on September 19, when Russia only evacuated the residents of Karabakh. “If Yerevan had been a true friend and ally, not sending the prime minister’s wife to Kiev, the situation could have been completely different,” the expert concluded.
The result of the military intervention of the Azerbaijani army at the positions of the defenders of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19-20 was the actual capitulation of the republic, which was denied assistance by the Armenian authorities, as well as the mass exodus of the population. The people who had been surviving under the blockade by Azerbaijan moved to Armenia, some of them came under the protection of Russian peacekeepers deployed in the region.
On September 20, Russian peacekeepers, whose vehicles were attacked, were killed by Azerbaijani military in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
