The April battles were the forerunner of the great Karabakh war

Immediately after a three-day battles in April 2016, when Azerbaijan has armed forces micro-defeated the Armenian army after more than 20 years of truce, the analytical service of the Turan news agency published an article "The Karabakh conflict on the way of Russia’s breakthrough to the South." In that article we tried to explain the reason for the small victorious war that shocked the Armenians, the balance of power in the region and the interests of the main foreign policy players involved in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

The analytical service concluded that the April battles was the first clear call to Yerevan about the need to revise its position on the Karabakh conflict, taking into account the emerging new interests of the United States, Russia, Turkey, Iran in the Western Asia region.

As the fragment of time between the current large-scale and local April military actions shows, the Armenian society did not take into account the changing world order and ignored the interests of the four imperial states. In this sense, the outbreak of war was inevitable and necessary.This was predicted by the article "The Karabakh conflict on the way of Russia’s breakthrough to the South".