{"id":5468,"date":"2026-05-10T20:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:34:21","slug":"moscow-expects-explanations-from-yerevan-over-zelenskys-statements-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/moscow-expects-explanations-from-yerevan-over-zelenskys-statements-kremlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow expects \u2018explanations\u2019 from Yerevan over Zelensky\u2019s statements \u2013 Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader\u2019s remarks during his visit to Armenia are seen as a threat by the Russian Defense Ministry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia expects Armenia to explain its lack of reaction to the \u201canti-Russian\u201d<\/em> statements made by Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky during a recent summit in Yerevan, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.<\/p>\n

Providing a venue for such rhetoric goes against the spirit of partnership between the two nations, he told journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Zelensky was in Yerevan earlier this week for a two-day summit<\/a> of the European Political Community (EPC), an EU-led intergovernmental group launched in 2022 in response to the escalation of the Ukraine crisis. He asked for more military and financial assistance from the West while claiming that Moscow was scared that Ukrainian \u201cdrones may buzz over Red Square\u201d<\/em> ahead of Victory Day celebrations in Russia.<\/p>\n

The Russian Defense Ministry then warned<\/a> that if Ukraine attempted to disrupt the festivities with attacks, a major retaliatory strike would follow.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe would surely expect some explanations\u201d<\/em> from Armenia, Peskov said, pointing to what he called a lack of any attempt to \u201cbalance\u201d<\/em> Zelensky\u2019s rhetoric on the part of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was hosting the summit. Moscow does not understand \u201cwhy anti-Russian statements are coming\u201d<\/em> from Armenian soil, he added.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Armenian ambassador in Moscow to protest \u201copening the floor\u201d<\/em> for Zelensky\u2019s \u201cterrorist threats against Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Peskov maintained that Yerevan has a \u201csovereign right\u201d<\/em> to define its foreign policy and host any summits it wants, adding that Moscow only wants it not to take an anti-Russian position.<\/p>\n

Relations between Russia and Armenia started to cool after Pashinyan came to power in 2018. During his time in office, Armenia lost a proxy war with neighboring Azerbaijan over the latter\u2019s region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinyan then attempted to fault Moscow for not providing military assistance at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader\u2019s remarks during his visit to Armenia are seen as a threat by the Russian Defense Ministry Russia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}