Armenian-Russian air defense system did not work at right time -  Pashinyan

ArmInfo.The joint air defense system of Armenia and Russia did not work at the right time. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced  on April 11 in parliament.

"You know that by law the air defense system had to be activated on  our orders. At the right moment, on our order, the joint air defense  did not turn on. And there are many such cases: Now you will say that  if we had pursued a good policy with the Russian Federation and the  CSTO, this would not have happened.

You are right, then you would have conducted a good policy so that in  January 2016 a package would not put on the negotiating table, called  by the people, mistakenly, the 'Lavrov plan', in which "a big  monument was erected" dedicated to the issue of the status of Nagorno  Karabakh.

You would have led a good policy, you were the Minister of Defense,  Mr. Ohanyan. Our strategic partner signed a contract to sell weapons  to Azerbaijan in the amount of $3 billion. Since you had such good  relations, since you did not have any problems, since you were not  incompetent like us, you would have resolved this issue. Let's see  what weapons Armenia received from Russia in 2013-2018 and what  weapons Azerbaijan received.  Moreover, many countries in the world  did not sell us weapons, they said: you are a member of the CSTO, we  will not give you weapons," said Nikol Pashinyan.

In February 2021, in one of his interviews, Pashinyan stated that the  missiles of the Russian Iskander complexes did not explode <or only  exploded by 10%> during military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh.   This is how the head of the Armenian government commented on the  statement of the country's former president Serzh Sargsyan that the  Armenian side could have used the Iskander on the fourth day of the  war, when Azerbaijan had accumulated huge forces and military  equipment in Horadiz and other areas.  Sargsyan also asked why the  oil and gas facilities of Azerbaijan were not hit by these complexes.  When asked by a journalist whether such misfires are possible,  Pashinyan replied that he did not know.