Azerbaijan Strongly Protested To The Russian Federation

• 28.06.2025, 18:40

In connection with mass detentions of Azerbaijanis.

Russian Embassy Charge d'Affaires Peter Volokov was summoned to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry in connection with the raids on Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg.

The Russian side was strongly protested, Radio Liberty reports.html">"Radio Liberty".

The agency said Russian police conducted raids on June 27, "during which two Azerbaijanis were brutally killed, several people were seriously injured, and nine people were arrested."

"Our expectation to investigate the issue, to soon bring to criminal responsibility all the perpetrators of violence was communicated," the foreign ministry said in a press release.

The press services of the regional Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee and the Sverdlovsk Oblast Interior Ministry's Main Directorate told RBC that "a set of measures was carried out as part of the investigation of criminal cases on crimes of past years." The suspects were searched.

The E1 publication writes that about 50 Azerbaijanis were detained in Yekaterinburg on Friday. One man died when police burst in on him.

- He felt sick, he clutched his heart. They called an ambulance, rendered assistance, tried to pump him out, but it was impossible to save him. He was already not young," an acquaintance of the deceased told the publication.