Azerbaijan shoots down Russian helicopter in Armenia, no Repercussions as Usual

 

 

So the Muslim Azeri Turks shot down a Russian helicopter in Armenia and they admitted and apologized. Problem is so many are shooting down Russian planes and helicopters and there’s never any repercussions. Russia should have a doctrine similar to this: 1 Russian life = 100 non-Russian lives. This is what I would do if I were Putin, I would bomb the hell out of Azerbaijan for this.

In the end, those Russians are dead and Azerbaijan only offered an “excuse me” in exchange. Is that all that Russian lives matter? Not that long ago Turkey shot down a Russian jet in Syria and again there were no repercussions, but just empty threats. This is a sign of weakness. Putin is wrong not to punish these acts.

The Russian Mi-24 helicopter crashed in Armenia after being subjected to fire from the ground, Moscow confirmed. The incident took place near the border with Azerbaijan.

The chopper went down on Monday evening as it was escorting a motorcade to the Russian military base. The aircraft was hit by a missile from a portable air-defense system, whereupon it lost control and plunged into mountainous terrain on Armenian soil.

“The Russian Mi-24 helicopter was shot down in the airspace over the territory of the Republic of Armenia outside the combat zone [with Azerbaijan],” stressed the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

Footage available online purportedly shows the scene of the deadly incident.

Two of the helicopter’s flight crew members were killed and one was evacuated with moderate injuries, it has been confirmed. The command of the Russian military base, whose motorcade the Mi-24 was escorting, has launched a probe to establish the attackers’ nationality or any other potential affiliations.

Yerevan is willing to provide Moscow with informational aid during the investigation, said the Armenian defense ministry spokesperson.

The incident took place amid the escalation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where active hostilities resumed on September 27. Baku and Yerevan accused each other of shelling residential areas. The parties have signed cease-fire agreements three times, but the fighting continues to this day.

The situation is aggravated by the fact that Azerbaijan is actively supported by Turkey, a NATO member, while Armenia is a member of the the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a military alliance with Russia.

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