Russian military expert Pavel Felgenhauer has described the threat of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan as real.
'Today there is a real threat of destabilization of the situation,' he said in an interview with Radio Liberty's Armenian Service.
'Before that, neither Baku nor Yerevan wanted the worsening of the situation. Today, everything has changed. Aliyev's administration has set a serious objective for which it may risk and start hostilities again. Azerbaijan may take this step even if hostilities are not in its favour. The aim of the step is not to return Karabakh but to prevent ratification of the Armenian-Turkish protocols,' the analyst said.
Felgenhauer said the Karabakh conflict could not be described as frozen today.
'The situation is no longer frozen and anything can happen now,' he said.
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