Russian Defense Ministry denies armament delivery to Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Russian Defense Ministry has refuted Azeri media reports about delivery of Russian armament to Armenia.



The reports are clearly untrue, said Alexander Drobyshevsky, a spokesman for the Ministry, told The Echo of Moscow.



Earlier, the Armenian Defense Ministry also denied the reports that Russia supplied Armenia with military hardware to the amount of $800 million.



The reports are absolutely false, the RA Defense Minister's spokesman, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.



Azeri ANS TV quoted Russian Defense Ministry's spokesman Alexander Petrunin as saying that "Russia delivered military hardware to Armenia in the framework of a transnational agreement."
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