Russia announces that NATO sending military contingent to Armenia, issues stern warning to Yerevan

"The situation in relations between Armenia and Russia does not inspire optimism due to the position of the Armenian leadership, which deliberately ruins relations with the Russian Federation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with Izvestia.
It was subsequently doubled, and now troops from Norway, Canada, and the United States are being sent there, turning the EU mission into a NATO mission, Lavrov added.
Lavrov accused Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of harming bilateral relations.
“I also spoke with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan when I visited Yerevan for various meetings. It seemed to me that he still understands the benefits of continuing alliance relations with Russia, and cooperation within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union. But now, both in the Armenian Security Council and in the parliament, Armenian officials directly say that we need to rely more on the European Union. According to them, CSTO allegedly does not fulfill its obligations to the republic,” Lavrov said.
He recalled that the mandate of this mission was fully agreed upon at a ministerial meeting in Yerevan in the autumn of 2021, after which Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared the lack of consensus and summoned a similar EU mission to the country.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova emphasized that Armenia is gradually turning, before the eyes of the whole world, into “an instrument for the implementation of extremely dangerous plans of the collective West, which are completely at odds with the fundamental interests of the Armenian people.”
According to her, the meeting scheduled for April 5 in the Armenia-US-EU format cause concern in Moscow because they are exclusively anti-Russian. “Such meetings cause concern among most countries in the region, because they are aimed not at achieving peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, but at further introducing the West with its extremely destructive approaches into the South Caucasus, creating new dividing lines there, forcing the countries of the region to follow the anti-Russian agenda, destruction of their centuries-old ties with Moscow, weakening the existing mechanisms of regional security and economic cooperation,” notes Zakharova.