Mercenaries with Azerbaijani Passports Penetrate Russia

According to the newspaper "Zhoghavoroud," Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan addressed journalists yesterday regarding the already proven fact by various international organizations that terrorists and jihadists are operating against Artsakh.

"It is a fact that terrorists and jihadists are fighting against Artsakh; they are committing war crimes and preparing to carry out their terrorist actions in other countries," Tatoyan noted.

It is worth mentioning that on October 2, French President Emmanuel Macron announced, "There is evidence that Syrian mercenaries from Turkey are participating in the hostilities in Karabakh," and on October 7, U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman stated, "I have called on the U.S. Secretary of State to continue to convey to Turkey that the deployment of militants in the region is unacceptable and will face a response from the United States."

Furthermore, on October 6, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, Sergey Naryshkin, noted: "According to intelligence, mercenaries from international terrorist groups fighting in the Middle East, such as 'Jabhat al-Nusra,' 'Fikrath al-Hamza,' 'Sultan Murad,' as well as extremist Kurdish groupings, are actively arriving in the conflict zone."

Currently, rumors are circulating in Istanbul that Turkish special services are providing some of the terrorists, who are recruited in Syria to fight against Artsakh, with Azerbaijani passports. It is not excluded that not all of the terrorists ultimately reach the front lines. Some of them, taking advantage of the visa-free regime between Azerbaijan and Russia, manage to travel uncontested to the Russian Federation, which indicates that the threat of terrorism in Russia is increasing day by day.

Let us recall that just weeks ago, on October 13, gunfire was reported between militants and law enforcement in Grozny, Chechnya. Moreover, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov stated that the militants had infiltrated Grozny from abroad, planning various terrorist actions in the region.

For more details, see today’s issue of the newspaper.