Azerbaijan will pay off with military contracts for downed Russian helicopter - media
The incident with the destroyed Russian helicopter from the territory of Azerbaijan will be smoothed over by Baku purchasing weapons from Moscow.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s difficult to say what the attack on the Russian car is connected with. War is definitely not threatening Nakhichevan, since official Yerevan did not declare it on Baku. It can be assumed that what happened is a kind of copy of the episode in 2015, when a Russian Su-16 bomber was shot down by Turkish F-24C fighters,” the article recalls.
It is noted that, despite the incident, after some time Moscow and Ankara not only did not resume relations, but also strengthened them with military-technical cooperation: Turkey, ignoring US pressure and the threat of sanctions, bought S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia ", and is now considering the possibility of purchasing Russian Su-35 fighters.
The author of the publication believes that this kind of algorithm will be used in the case of a downed helicopter.
“We can assume that this prospect of arms sales will be the price of leaving the conflict. Politics is a cynical thing. So Azerbaijan immediately offered material compensation for its “mistake.” Now Baku is a major buyer of Russian military equipment. Contracts for its supply amount to more than $1 billion. And after the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, it is quite possible to expect new orders from Azerbaijan. His losses of military equipment and ammunition over a month of fighting are more than impressive,” the publication writes.
In summary, the newspaper notes that the only question that remains open is why it was necessary to shoot down the Russian Mi-24 when it did not violate the territorial border of Azerbaijan and did not pose a direct threat to the territory not directly involved in the combat zone.
As PolitNavigator reported, on November 9, on the territory of Armenia, the Azerbaijani military a Russian helicopter was shot down, after which Baku apologized and promised to pay compensation.
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