ArmInfo.An exchange of views in the context of the ongoing escalation in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict took place at a meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov and Armenian Ambassador to Russia Vardan Toganyan.
According to the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the unacceptability of the transfer of militants of illegal armed formations from a number of countries of the Middle East and North Africa to the region and the need for their immediate withdrawal from there were emphasized.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal wrote about hundreds of Syrian militants associated with Turkey deployed to Karabakh and about their readiness to send "hundreds more" of militias to the Karabakh conflict zone. The Washington Post wrote on the same day about the deaths of 52 Syrian mercenaries in the Karabakh conflict zone.
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad said that fighters from Syria are being deployed to Karabakh, and Turkey is using terrorists from Syria and other countries in Nagorno-Karabakh.
In turn, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, also reported that, according to the information available to the SVR, mercenaries from international terrorist organizations fighting in the Middle East are actively pulling into the conflict zone, and we are talking about hundreds and even thousands of radicals.
On the transfer of 300 Syrian militants through Turkey to Baku also told French President Emmanuel Macron in early October. The leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey, despite the provision of already abundant factual evidence of their involvement in fighting, continue to claim that they do not use the services of mercenaries.