Zatulin: Pashinyan is trying to put all responsibility for losing war  with Azerbaijan in NK on Russia

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is trying to shift all responsibility for losing the war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh onto Russia. Thus, the first 

deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian 

Integration and Relations with Compatriots, Konstantin Zatulin, 

commented on Pashinyan's accusations against two CSTO member 

countries of providing assistance to Baku in 2020.

"My position has long been known. Pashinyan is a 'liar' and a 

'scoundrel' who is trying to direct the anger of the Armenian people 

towards Russia, having failed and lost everything that his 

predecessors and the entire Armenian people fought for, for many 

years," Zatulin said in an interview with Gazeta .Ru".  The 

parliamentarian also explained which two countries of the Collective 

Security Treaty Organization Pashinyan was talking about. "In my 

opinion, you don't need to guess [Russia and Belarus]." Zatulin 

stated.

During the government hour in parliament on May 22, Prime Minister of 

Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said that what the President of Belarus said 

to his Azerbaijani counterpart he has been trying to convey to the 

Armenian people over the past four years.

"I personally know about participation in preparations for war 

against us at least two CSTO countries.  These states imitate their 

desire to help us.   It must be said frankly that this war was not 

directed directly against Nagorno- Karabakh, it was a war against 

Armenia, against its existence. After November 9, 2020, these 

expectations were not met.   Similar actions were taken in May 2021, 

when the country's parliament was dissolved ahead of early 

parliamentary elections. But even then these hopes did not come 

true," Pashinyan noted, adding that these actions actively continued 

in subsequent years.  

The last evidence of these actions was on May 9 (numerous rallies in Yerevan, ed. note), but it also failed. "They won't succeed," said the RA Prime Minister.