“Those who try to hinder the implementation of the statement between Moscow, Yerevan and Baku should understand that the alternative to this document is war,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reported

Unexpectedly for me, what you just said now sounded about the tendency to slow down the implementation of the trilateral statement of the presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. People who are trying to do this should understand that there can be only one alternative to this – war,” the president said at a meeting on the Russian peacekeeping mission in Karabakh.

“And if, God forbid, this happens, then the blood of the victims will be on their hands. Those who are trying to torpedo this agreement. Everyone should understand and be aware of this,” Putin added.

It should be reminded that on 19 November, Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FSB), accused a number of Western countries of trying to resume the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh “in order to push Russia out of the Caucasus.”

“According to our information, some Western countries are inciting Armenian and Azeri nationalists to discredit and violate the ceasefire statement. 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 ended with Moscow’s mediation, as it effectively “nullified” their many years of work to oust Russia from the Caucasus,” he said.