Belarus supplied Azerbaijan weapons for the war against Armenia, its CSTO ally, Politico

Belarus supplied advanced weapons to Azerbaijan, despite the fact that it is a member of the CSTO and, accordingly, an ally of Armenia. Politico writes about this with reference to documents that got to the editorial office as a result of the leak.

According to reports, in the period from 2018 to 2022, Belarus supplied Azerbaijan military equipment, which the Azerbaijani army used in attacks both in Nagorno -Karabakh and the territory of Armenia. The services provided by the Belarusian side included the modernization of old artillery equipment, as well as the supply of new equipment used for electronic warfare and in unmanned aerial vehicles. In particular, in the correspondence between the authorities of the two countries, the purchase of the Groza-Snta-Comers-Belarusian self-propelled power stations of electronic warfare was agreed.

From the correspondence it follows that Belarusian enterprises receive contracts for construction work in Nagorno -Karabakh, in which ethnic cleaning was carried out after the seizure of the territory by Azerbaijan, and also increase the export of “goods and services”.

In May, Alexander Lukashenko visited Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh and called the war, begun Baku for the region, “liberating”. Soon after, the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the two CSTO member countries participated in the preparation of the war against Armenia. “And I want to say that this war was not about the Nagorno -Karabakh, but it was so that there was no Armenia,” Pashinyan said.

On June 13, Pashinyan said that he would not go to Belarus until Alexander Lukashenko runs there. After that, Belarus recalled her ambassador from Yerevan. The next day, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said that the republic’s ambassador to Minsk was also recalled for consultations.

When in September 2022 the Azerbaijani army invaded Armenia, the CSTO led by Russia did not take any measures to protect it, after which Yerevan accused the organization of non -fulfilling its obligations under the contract and invited the EU civil mission, whose representatives have been monitoring the situation on the border. Armenia stopped participating in the activities of the CSTO, although formally has not yet left it.