Aliyev sent $2 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine

The Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan will purchase and ship electrical equipment for Ukraine for this amount.

As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on July 28, the Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian company "Naftogaz" Serhiy Koretsky announced the conclusion of the first agreement with SOCAR Energy Ukraine (a subsidiary of the Azerbaijani State Oil Company SOCAR) for the purchase of gas. The agreement provides for a test supply of a small volume of gas.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to allocate $2 million to the country's Ministry of Energy to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine. The document was published on the website of the head of the republic. The funds will be used to purchase and send "electrical equipment produced in Azerbaijan to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine."

Earlier, on August 10, during a telephone conversation between Aliyev and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, they condemned attacks on energy facilities belonging to Azerbaijan, according to Aliyev's website. This concerns an oil storage facility of the Azerbaijani company SOCAR in Ukraine, as well as other facilities, including a compressor station transporting Azerbaijani gas to Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that between August 2 and 8, "gas transportation system facilities that ensure the operation of enterprises" of the country's defense industry were hit in Ukraine. The strikes are carried out only on military and energy facilities of Ukraine and related infrastructure, according to a message published on August 8 in the official Telegram channel of the department.

It should be noted that in February 2025, Aliyev also allocated a million dollars for electrical equipment for Ukraine, according to a decree signed by the President of Azerbaijan and posted on the website of the head of state.

Recall that relations between Moscow and Baku have noticeably worsened after the plane crash, more details about this can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" reference "Baku-Grozny flight crash" and in the material "Geopolitical confrontation: what did the crash of the AZAL plane lead to".

A new round of deterioration in relations between the two countries was the ethnic raids in Russia and retaliatory detentions of Russians in Azerbaijan. Baku accuses the Russian authorities of extrajudicial reprisals against Azerbaijanis, and footage of the brutal detention of Russians in Baku looks like a demonstrative response to Moscow's actions, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Crisis in Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia".

Materials about the deterioration of relations between the two states have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Collapse of Relations between Baku and Moscow".