ArmInfo. In place of the Armenian President, I would also raise the issue of Azerbaijan's use of Russian weapons against civilians," said Nikolai Silaev, senior researcher at the Center for Caucasus Problems and Regional Security of MSUIR.
On April 7, 2016, two days after the end of the four-day war, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan informed the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Yerevan about the use of Russian weapons supplied to Azerbaijan against the civilians of Artsakh.
At the same time, commenting on the latest Russian deliveries of anti-tank missile systems "Chrizantema- S" to Azerbaijan, Silaev conditioned them by the need to replenish the funds sent for the development of the Russian military-industrial complex. The expert believes that the supply of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan with the strategic alliance of Armenia and Russia is not connected in any way, since Armenia receives Russian weapons within the framework of CSTO agreements.
Recently, anti-tank missiles "Chrizantema-S", intended for the destruction of tanks, armored vehicles and fortifications of the enemy, arrived to Baku port from Russia.
According to the report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), in 2012-2016. the purchase of weapons by Azerbaijan exceeded the purchase of Armenia by 20 times. According to SIPRI experts, Azerbaijan, with 4%, also entered the top five countries, which left in 2012-2016 the bulk of the export volume of Russian weapons, 85% of weapons Azerbaijan continues to import from Russia.