ArmInfo. Ukraine will not provide military assistance to any of the parties to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. This was stated by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky at a briefing in the Chernivtsi region on Friday, where he is on a working visit,. TASS reports.
Zelensky also said that Kiev calls on the conflicting parties - Armenia and Azerbaijan - to dialogue with the aim of de-escalating the conflict. At the same time, he specified that in the past two years, "very serious, strong" relations have developed between Kiev and Baku, and that Ukraine supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the lawmaker of the Verkhovna Rada, a member of the presidential faction "Servant of the People" Lyudmila Marchenko said on the air of this TV channel that Kiev is allegedly ready to support Azerbaijan "at different sites." According to her, the matter concerns both humanitarian and military support. Meanwhile, on Friday, the party issued a statement that Marchenko's statements are not the official position of either the faction or Ukraine. "Ukraine will not provide military assistance to any of the sides in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict," Interior Minister Arsen Avakov responded to this statement by Marchenko. "Ukraine will not provide military assistance to any of the parties in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict. But medical assistance - pills for those lawmakers who have fertile imagination should