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Russia transferred air defense, electronic warfare weapons to Armenia: media

AMN – Al-Masdar News
Aug 14 2020

S-300 PMU-2 long-range air defense system deployed by the Algerian army in southern Algeria.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 P.M.) – Earlier this week, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev held a phone meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about the latter’s delivery of 400 tons of weapons to Armenia in recent weeks.

Aliyev reportedly expressed his concern about Russia’s deliveries, especially during a time when Azerbaijan and Armenia were clashing along the border.

However, according to the Russian publication, Avia.Pro, Azerbaijan had more reasons to worry about the arms shipment because it involved modernized weapons like air defense and electronic warfare systems.

“According to the data available to the resource Avia.pro, since mid-July, Russian military aircraft have made a huge number of mysterious flights to Armenia, transferring about 400 tons of military cargo here, as reported,” they said.

“According to the data, we are talking about the most modern weapons, including air defense systems, short, medium and long range radars, electronic suppression systems, artillery weapons, etc. long-range, including the S-300 air defense system,” Avia.Pro added.

Russia is one of largest suppliers of weapons to Armenia and also a key ally to Yerevan in the region; this has led to some friction with Azerbaijan, who rejects Armenia’s claims to the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

On July 12th, fierce clashes broke out between the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces along a border region separating the two nations; this resulted in the death of 18 people, including 12 Azerbaijani soldiers.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS