Prime Minister Pashinyan has accused Azeri troops of a new border violation.

The Russian president said “the weapons are perhaps the only thing that the Taliban received after the West’s twenty-year military presence in Afghanistan.”

A Russia-led military bloc intends to hold large army drills in Tajikistan near the border of Taliban-held Afghanistan next month.

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko says military build-ups by the United States and NATO near the western borders of his country, Russia, and a number of other states in the region is cause for “serious concern.”

The head of a Russian-led military alliance, including Armenia, is confident the ongoing Karabakh fighting will not proceed to a stage to warrant an intervention.