News - Putin: Armenia remains our ally

Armenia remains our ally and we are ready to discuss and will discuss humanitarian issues and provide support and assistance, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. According to him, Russia used all legal possibilities to provide a humanitarian component in connection with the situation in Karabakh. “As you know, our people died there, our peacekeepers, protecting the residents of Karabakh, covering them with themselves. We provided humanitarian aid, medical assistance, ensured their exit... Everyone came to the center of our peacekeepers, under their protection. Thousands gathered there...They came there. Women and children mostly...," he said. He noted that Russia is ready to assist Armenians who left Nagorno-Karabakh. “We are ready to provide assistance. Armenia does not cease to be our ally. We are ready and will discuss humanitarian issues and provide support and assistance to these people. If we return to our European so-called colleagues, let them at least now send humanitarian aid to support these unfortunate people who left their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh. It seems to me that they will do this. In general, we need to think about their fate in the long term...” noted the Russian President.