Azerbaijan has warned that it could reconsider its prohibition of transferring weapons from its arsenals to Ukraine if Russia maintains attacks against energy facilities linked to the country in Ukrainian territory. Media close to the administration of President Ilham Aliyev have directly linked that possible measure with the last series of Russian bombings against the Ukrainian electrical system.
The warning comes accompanied by a new support package to kyiv. Aliyev has signed an order to allocate two million dollars in humanitarian aid, which will be channeled through the Ministry of Energy for the purchase and sending of electrical equipment produced in Azerbaijan. The objective, according to the authorities, is to reinforce Ukrainian energy infrastructure after the damage caused by Russian attacks, according to the information published on the web .
The Ministry of Finance will guarantee the endowment, from the 2025 budget reserve fund, while the Council of Ministers will be responsible for the necessary efforts for delivery, as detailed . Baku frames this gesture in its long -distance humanitarian policy that has included the sending of help to various countries and, repeatedly, to Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion in 2022. Both countries maintain a relationship that their governments describe as “of friendship and strategic association”, supported by bilateral agreements of 2000, 2008 and 2022.
From Zangezur corridor to the Trump route
These ads occur just a week after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a joint statement that gives the United States the exclusive rights to develop a 43 -kilometer strategic corridor through southern Armenia. Baptized as Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (Tripp), the road will connect Azerbaijan with its Najicheván exclave and will also link with Turkey, consolidating Baku’s position as a commercial node in the South Caucasus.
The agreement, which Washington could explode for 99 years, is a setback for Iran and Russia. Moscow sees its last strategic position in the region, a military base in Armenia, as Konstantin Zatulin, deputy director of the Commission for Affairs of the Community of Independent States of the Russian Parliament warned. The joint statement also dissolves the Minsk group of the OSCE, in charge of mediating in the Nagorno-Karabaj conflict, and contemplates the lifting by the United States of the restrictions imposed in 1992 to military cooperation with Azerbaijan.
