On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Armenian ambassador in Moscow to protest“opening the floor”for Zelensky’s“terrorist threats against Russia.”
Peskov maintained that Yerevan has a“sovereign right”to define its foreign policy and host any summits it wants, adding that Moscow only wants it not to take an anti-Russian position.
Relations between Russia and Armenia started to cool after Pashinyan came to power in 2018. During his time in office, Armenia lost a proxy war with neighboring Azerbaijan over the latter’s region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinyan then attempted to fault Moscow for not providing military assistance at the time.
