ArmInfo.The joint air defense system of Armenia and Russia did not work at the right time. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on April 11 in parliament.
"You know that by law the air defense system had to be activated on our orders. At the right moment, on our order, the joint air defense did not turn on. And there are many such cases: Now you will say that if we had pursued a good policy with the Russian Federation and the CSTO, this would not have happened.
You are right, then you would have conducted a good policy so that in January 2016 a package would not put on the negotiating table, called by the people, mistakenly, the 'Lavrov plan', in which "a big monument was erected" dedicated to the issue of the status of Nagorno Karabakh.
You would have led a good policy, you were the Minister of Defense, Mr. Ohanyan. Our strategic partner signed a contract to sell weapons to Azerbaijan in the amount of $3 billion. Since you had such good relations, since you did not have any problems, since you were not incompetent like us, you would have resolved this issue. Let's see what weapons Armenia received from Russia in 2013-2018 and what weapons Azerbaijan received. Moreover, many countries in the world did not sell us weapons, they said: you are a member of the CSTO, we will not give you weapons," said Nikol Pashinyan.
In February 2021, in one of his interviews, Pashinyan stated that the missiles of the Russian Iskander complexes did not explode <or only exploded by 10%> during military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh. This is how the head of the Armenian government commented on the statement of the country's former president Serzh Sargsyan that the Armenian side could have used the Iskander on the fourth day of the war, when Azerbaijan had accumulated huge forces and military equipment in Horadiz and other areas. Sargsyan also asked why the oil and gas facilities of Azerbaijan were not hit by these complexes. When asked by a journalist whether such misfires are possible, Pashinyan replied that he did not know.