Ukrainian president says Russia losing influence in Azerbaijan and Armenia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Russia has recently suffered political setbacks on the international stage and is losing its ability to exert influence over several countries, including Hungary, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

In an interview with the Guardian, he said in April, Putin’s closest ally in Europe, Viktor Orbán, was trounced in Hungary’s general election and recent Russian efforts to support pro-Kremlin candidates in Moldova and – over the weekend – in Armenia also failed.

“They are losing influence in different countries, including in Azerbaijan,” Zelenskyy noted.

According to him, they are isolated “inside Europe and from the United States also. So they are alone.”