Azerbaijan sent a protest note to Russia on Friday after its embassy in Kyiv was damaged in an Iskander missile attack. Russian Ambassador Mikhail Yevdakimov was summoned to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to convey Baku’s protest to Moscow.
At the meeting with ambassador Yevdakimov, "it was stressed that such attacks on our diplomatic missions are unacceptable, and it was requested that the Russian side conduct an appropriate investigation into the issue and provide a detailed explanation.”
The Azerbaijani Embassy said in a statement that part of the embassy’s perimeter wall was destroyed, causing damage to the diplomatic compound. No one was injured durig the attack and the embassy continued operations. The embassy reminded that Russian attacks had also taken place near the embassy in January 2024, leaving a big crater nearby. Another attack occurred in August 2025 and damaged the embassy building. In addition, Azerbaijani consulate was damaged in a Russian airstrike in March 2022.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had a phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during which Aliyev called the attack as an “unacceptable violation of international law”. Zelenskiy said four people were killed and dozens were injured during Russia’s “wicked” attack across Ukraine.
Facilities belonging to Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company, SOCAR, have also come under Russian air raids. Two Russian drones struck SOCAR’s oil depot in Odessa in August, injuring staff and damaging infrastructure.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air forces launched massive overnight attacks on Friday against Ukraine’s military-industrial sites and energy infrastrucutre that supplied them.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia entered a downward spiral last December after Russian air defence systems shot down an Azerbaijani passenger plane, killing thirty-eight people, in what Russian President described as a “tragic event”. During a meeting with Aliyev in October, Putin took responsibility for Russia’s role in the plane crash and said Moscow would pay compensation to the families of those affected. The tension between Moscow and Baku peaked after two Azerbaijanis were killed in a police raid in Russia’s Yekaterinburg city in July. In reponse, Azerbaijani cancelled all Russian cultural events, shut down Russian cultural house, suspended the work of Baku office of Sputnik news agency linked to the Kremlin.
