Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov advised the Armenian leadership to remember the unenviable fate of countries that relied on the United States. He said this in an interview with TASS.

Answering the question whether it could happen that Armenia will lose Russia, he noted that several leading politicians in Yerevan want a similar scenario and are looking towards the West.

“You know, there are many people there who want to lose Russia and make new friends,” the minister said in an interview with TASS.

“If they rely on the United States, as directly follows from the statements of many representatives of the Armenian leadership, then perhaps it would be good for them to look at recent history, how the United States treated those whom it sought to take under its wing, promoting its geopolitical interests in distant from the American shores to areas of the world. The fate of all these people is very, very unenviable,” Lavrov noted.

He emphasized that in any case, the interests of the Russian Federation in the Transcaucasus cannot be ignored geopolitically. “Historically, geographically, geopolitically, it is impossible to lose Russia in the sense of completely ignoring its interests in the Transcaucasus,” said the head of Russian diplomacy. “But some leaders in Yerevan harbor such hopes, and they speak about this directly.”