YEREVAN. Nov 19 (Interfax) - Russia provided military assistance to Armenia during the latest war in Nagorno-Karabakh even without a request from Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Col. Gen. Movses Hakobyan, who resigned as Armenia's chief military inspector on Wednesday, said on Thursday.
"As of September 30, Pashinyan hadn't called [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to ask for help. Russia, as a brotherly nation, provided supplies to us guided by its conscience. Russia provided us with the maximum of what was possible. It gave us what we couldn't even have dreamt of," Hakobyan said at a press conference on Thursday.
During the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian forces used the Iskander tactical missile system, he said.
"Iskanders were used during the war. I can't say where," Hakobyan said.
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone on September 27. Late on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia adopted a trilateral statement on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to the region, and the transfer of a number of districts in the region to Azerbaijan. People in Armenia have taken that statement as capitulation.