The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry handed a note to the Russian ambassador.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has called the attacks on the country's diplomatic missions in Ukraine unacceptable and demanded an investigation.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry summoned Mikhail Yevdokimov, the Russian Ambassador to the Republic. He was handed a note of protest over the attack on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv, according to a statement on the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's website.

During the meeting, a strong protest was expressed in connection with the fall of an Iskander missile on the grounds of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv last night. According to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, part of the wall surrounding the embassy was completely destroyed, buildings, official vehicles, the administrative building, and the consular section of the embassy were damaged, and serious damage was caused to the diplomatic mission complex.

The embassy also reported other strikes that damaged the consulate building in Kharkiv and the embassy in Kyiv, as well as a SOCAR oil depot in the Odessa region, injuring staff and causing significant damage to infrastructure.

"It was emphasized that such attacks on our diplomatic missions are unacceptable, and a corresponding investigation by the Russian side with a detailed explanation was demanded," the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Relations between Moscow and Baku significantly deteriorated after the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane with 67 people on board in Kazakhstan on December 25, 2024, while flying from Baku to Grozny. More details can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Baku-Grozny Flight Crash" and in the article "Geopolitical Confrontation: What the AZAL Plane Crash Led to." Ethnic raids in Russia and retaliatory detentions of Russians in Azerbaijan have become the latest step in the deterioration of relations between the two countries. Baku accuses Russian authorities of extrajudicial reprisals against Azerbaijanis, and footage of the brutal detention of Russians in Baku appears to be a demonstrative response to Moscow's actions, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Crisis in Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia".

Signs of easing tensions in relations between the two countries only appeared in October: the first meeting in a long time between Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev took place on October 9 in Dushanbe, and on October 10, after the meeting, it became known that Sputnik Azerbaijan executive director Igor Kartavykh and one of the Azerbaijanis arrested in Russia had been released. On October 19, Kartavykh flew to Russia. On October 25, the agency's editor-in-chief, Yevgeny Belousov, also arrived in Moscow, and on the same day, Yusif Khalilov, an entrepreneur from Voronezh and one of the leaders of the local diaspora, arrived in Baku. He was arrested in Russia on bribery charges.

Also on July 1, a Baku court arrested eight Russian citizens, who were detained on charges of drug trafficking and cybercrime. Moscow is counting on Baku to refrain from excessive and unfair harshness toward detained Russians, stated Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova. On July 16, it was reported that relatives of some Russians arrested in Baku were able to visit them, and the Russian consul described their detention conditions as good. Russians arrest period extended.