Russia on Wednesday accused Armenia of taking actions that undermine the spirit of its longstanding alliance with Moscow, signaling deepening tensions between the two traditional allies.
According to Russia's state news agency TASS, Moscow said recent steps by Yerevan were "inconsistent with the spirit of allied relations," amid Armenia's growing engagement with Western partners and ongoing friction over regional security issues.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu also called the "number of actions” taken by Armenia’s leadership "clearly unfriendly.”
"This is precisely how we view the accession to the International Criminal Court, the extradition of Russian citizens to third countries, and the deliberate worsening of conditions for Russian economic operators, which, incidentally, provide jobs for tens of thousands of Armenian citizens," he said while speaking at a Security Council special working group meeting.
"And, finally, the use of the platform at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan by the Kyiv regime to threaten the Russian Federation,” he underlined.
