Experts believe that the new escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is an attempt to open another front against Russia, at a time when the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Azerbaijani armed forces had penetrated the area of concentration of its forces in the region on March 27 and 28, and directed 4 strikes against the units of the region's forces.
In a report published by the Russian newspaper " Pravda
", writer Lyubov Steboshova quoted
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying that the situation of Nagorno-Karabakh has not yet been resolved, and it will be resolved in the future depending on the measures that the parties to the conflict must take in order to restore ethnic and sectarian harmony in the region, indicating That after recent developments, Moscow called on Azerbaijan to withdraw its forces.
The writer explained that, according to what was reported by the Armenian media, during this period a gas pipeline was blown up and the Armenian settlements were subjected to regular bombardment, and on the evening of March 27, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Azerbaijani side, after negotiations, withdrew units of its armed forces from the village of Farrukh in the Nagorno-Kara region. Bagh, but Azerbaijan denied these allegations, demanding Russia to withdraw the illegal Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh.
The writer stated that the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry denied violating the demarcation line, noting that on March 26, the illegal Armenian armed groups tried to provoke its soldiers.
The ministry added - in a statement - that the immediate measures taken by it forced the Armenians to retreat, noting that Azerbaijan had earlier demanded Russia to completely withdraw the rest of the Armenian army and the illegal Armenian armed formations from the territory of Azerbaijan with the demarcation of regional administrative units.
Both sides of the conflict are not satisfied with Russia in the region
According to Stepochova, the head of the Regional and Eurasian Integration Committee in the Armenian parliament, Armen Gevorgyan, said that Baku wants to withdraw Russian forces from Karabakh and take a non-political approach to solving the problem of the region, indicating that Baku believes that Russia is today preoccupied with Ukraine and is not ready to open another front in the South Caucasus. However, he does not rule out that Yerevan officials will organize talks with Baku to discuss the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Gevorgyan added - as quoted by the writer - that "the Armenian authorities are working to stoke anti-Russian sentiment and criticize its armed forces and weapons, and the Russian peacekeeping unit in Karabakh is known as an incompetent mechanism."
He pointed out that the parties to the conflict are desperate to attack Russia, which considers this a betrayal in light of the fact that it is facing international sanctions at the present time.
Baku and Yerevan are holding negotiations away from the Kremlin
The writer reveals that the Azeri forces left the village of Farrukh in order to calm the situation and were stationed in the Karaglukh highlands, indicating that it is not ruled out that Baku and Yerevan will conclude an agreement without referring to the Russian armed forces, but because things are going against the plan, Russia will have to reconsider the issue after the completion of the agreement. Ukraine.
Orientalist and historian Gennady Avdeev - as the writer conveys - believes that the conflict is due to historical reasons that cannot be resolved immediately, noting that the two parties have eventually absorbed the conditions put forward by Russia and Turkey as mediators, and he believes that "psychological problems" remain unresolved, which is what Pays the parties to not comply, act dishonestly, and again violate the truce.