Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia Sergei Naryshkin has accused a number of Western countries of trying to resume the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh “in order to push Russia out of the Caucasus,” TASS reported.

“According to our information, some Western countries are inciting Armenian and Azeri nationalists to discredit and violate the ceasefire agreement. They are trying to convince the Armenians that peace in Nagorno Karabakh is a defeat for Yerevan. Azeris are being told that the Kremlin has ‘stolen their victory,'” Naryshkin said.

“The United States and its allies are saddened by the fact that the war was stopped by Moscow, as it effectively “nullified” their many years of work to oust Russia from the Caucasus,” he said.