{"id":290364,"date":"2026-08-06T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=290364"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:23:57","slug":"russian-lawmaker-comments-on-ukraine-azerbaijan-strategic-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/290364\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian lawmaker comments on Ukraine-Azerbaijan &#8216;strategic partnership&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The situation in the South Caucasus could shift due to the impact of the Iran-US conflict, prompting Azerbaijan to reconsider its position, including on the war in Ukraine, Russian State Duma Deputy Alexey Chepa has said. He also stressed that Baku would not become a supplier of weapons to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/lenta.ru\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/v-rossii-otvetili-na-slova-glavy-mid-azerbaydzhana-o-strategicheskom-partnerstve-s-ukrainoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lenta.ru<\/a>, Chepa, who serves as deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said: &ldquo;I do not think Azerbaijan will become a supplier of weapons to Ukraine. I think the situation in the South Caucasus will change somewhat in the near future. This is primarily due to developments in the Iran-US conflict. I also believe Azerbaijan will revise its position, including on the issue of Ukraine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov described his talks with Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha as productive. He said Baku and Kyiv &ldquo;share a strategic partnership based on the principles of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation in the South Caucasus could shift due to the impact of the Iran-US conflict, prompting Azerbaijan to reconsider its position, including on the war in Ukraine, Russian State Duma Deputy Alexey Chepa has said. He also stressed that Baku would not become a supplier of weapons to Kyiv. Speaking to Lenta.ru, Chepa, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":290299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290369,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290364\/revisions\/290369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}