The Kremlin has been left livid after Armenia, previously a Russian ally, introduced a large joint navy train with the US in a humiliating blow for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The “Eagle Partner” conflict video games are set to run by September 20 and can contain 175 Armenian and 85 American troops.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has erupted in fury and summoned its Armenian ambassador to lodge a proper protest over the workout routines.

It additionally blasted a collection of different Armenian strikes as unfriendly, regardless of Russia being the Caucasus nation's important ally.

In reality, Russia has been Armenia’s important financial companion and ally for the reason that collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Landlocked Armenia even hosts a Russian navy base and is a member of the Moscow-led safety alliance of ex-Soviet nations, the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

But now, the nation seems to be aligning extra carefully with the West and has stood with Ukraine amid the unlawful Russian invasion.

Armenia has even signed off on what Russia has known as the “transfer of humanitarian aid to Kyiv’s Nazi regime.”

Last week, it introduced that it will present humanitarian help to Ukraine as Moscow ramps up its brutal marketing campaign by putting infrastructure and civilian targets.

In a serious blow for the Kremlin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan mentioned: “We are not Russia’s ally in the war with Ukraine. And our feeling from that war, from that conflict, is anxiety because it directly affects all our relationships.”

His spouse even just lately made an official go to to the nation in a uncommon present of power towards Moscow.

Pashinyan has been scrambling to strike nearer ties with the US different Western companions as tensions with neighboring Azerbaijan boil over.

The Armenian chief has hit out at Moscow for failing to assist elevate the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway Armenian-populated province of Azerbaijan.

Now, he says Armenia wants to show to the West to assist for its safety.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a area inside Azerbaijan that got here underneath the management of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian navy after a six-year separatist conflict that resulted in 1994.

Armenian forces additionally took management of considerable territory across the area.

Aid organizations say they can't ship provides of meals and gasoline and have raised the alarm over a humanitarian disaster that's unfolding.

Azerbaijan denies the claims, insisting native Armenians should lay down their weapons and undergo being ruled as a part of the nation.

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