During an interview with the Azerbaijani press, Aliyev said this is the only reason Baku hasn’t responded to Armenian provocations with force.
CSTO Press Secretary Vladislav Shegrikovich, according to TASS, said the Armenian Ministry of Defense had informed the CSTO Joint Staff that the military exercise, with CSTO peacekeepers, would not be proper at this time.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has described Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement today ruling out a planned CSTO military exercise in Armenia this year as “something new”, implying that it was not expected.
The only high-voltage power line supplying electricity from Armenia to was damaged today according to the private Artsakh Energo utility company.