Yerevan /Mediamax/. Senior adviser to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev Hikmet Hajiyev has stated that Russia has been “intensively arming Armenia” after the July clashed on Armenian-Azerbaijan border.

Reuters reports that according to Hajiyev, Russian Il-76 strategic airlifters made regular flights to Armenia after July 17.

Hikmet Hajiyev has said that the official Baku was not satisfied with Russia’s explanation that those planes were carrying building materials. “Construction materials are usually not supplied in aeroplanes, there are other tools for that,” Hajiyev said.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who visited Baku on August 25, stated that Moscow was not acting against Azerbaijan.

“We followed anxiously the events on the border with Armenia. We know about the concerns regarding our flights to our base. I want to state this at once: none of our actions have ever been or are aimed against Azerbaijan, our neighbor and partner. Russia is not interested in escalating the tension in the South Caucasus,” he said during the visit.

Shoigu noted that Russia was building structures of social purpose at its military base in Armenia.

“That implies certain light activity. The other part of the process is the conscription. Some soldiers had to be taken home, some others – brought to the base,” he added.

“I repeat: our actions have never been aimed against Azerbaijan and they are not aimed against it now,” Shoigu assured.

Earlier, on August 12, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a phone conversation that he was concerned about military deliveries to Armenia.

“Ilham Aliyev has noted that the volume of military cargo, delivered from Russia to Armenia through the air space of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran immediately after the clashes on the Armenian-Azerbaijan border, exceeded 400 tons. He has underlined that the main goal of his call was to clarify that issue,” Aliyev’s press service said in a statement.