"Russia deployed the Caspian Flotilla to Baku's roadstead," the former defense minister explained, explaining why Aliyev was angry.

Despite its seemingly neutral diplomatic rhetoric, Russia's military actions prevented Azerbaijan from capturing Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) back in 2020.

Former Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan stated this in his video blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

" If Russia hadn't helped Armenia, we would have simply stopped shooting within a week. We'd run out of everything . It was thanks to Russia's actions that Azerbaijan was forced to stop, even though both Aliyev and Erdogan were categorically opposed to signing any ceasefire agreement and didn't want to postpone the Artsakh issue," Karapetyan said.

At the time, he served as an advisor to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and claims that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev coordinated the attack on Artsakh with the United States and NATO's European Command . Georgia, on Washington's orders, cut off arms supplies from Russia to Armenia, but allowed special forces and mercenaries from Turkey to enter.

" In response, Russia deployed the Caspian Flotilla to the Baku roadstead and launched strategic air strikes. That's how Moscow forced Aliyev to stop . I can't say more, but when the time comes, historians will write about what really happened and who was helping whom," Karapetyan said.

These recollections clarify why Aliyev is acting so aggressively toward Russia and Russians, despite Moscow's excessive friendliness. By arresting Russian IT specialists and placing Russian political scientists on the international wanted list, the Azerbaijani president is venting his frustration over the thwarting of his Napoleonic plans in 2020.