YEREVAN. – In the case of military operations at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, Russia will not carry out a military intervention, but it will exert all political and legal efforts to end the military operations, Black Sea-Caspian Region Political and Social Research Institute analyst Andrei Areshev stated during a press conference on Monday.    

At the same time Areshev noted that localizing military operations in such small region is not too likely.

“In addition, there is an official position and there are demands that are closer to reality. And, at the crucial moment, the commander at the battlefront does not think that much about being dismissed,” he said.  

In his turn, CIS Institute political scientist, analyst Mikhail Aleksandrov stressed that such military operations will be connected with the territory of Armenia, too. He stressed that Armenia will provide military assistance to Karabakh, and therefore Azerbaijan will be compelled to strike Armenia. Otherwise, its entire infrastructure will be destroyed.       

“And at that time the CSTO mechanism will become active,” Aleksandrov noted.

And responding to Armenian News-NEWS.am’s query as to how Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh today must react to Azerbaijan’s provocations, Mikhail Aleksandrov stated that the force of the Armenian party’s retaliation needs to surpass that of Azerbaijan.  

“If the aggressor always receives an equivalent response, it will continue to behave inappropriately. Aggression must be quelled,” Mikhail Aleksandrov noted.