Russian president Vladimir Putin took time out of his busy schedule, dominated by the military operation in Ukraine, to make an official trip to Azerbaijan on 29 June. He and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev met for a private lunch during which they discussed the usual topics of regional cooperation but this time, more unusually, they also talked about Sudan.
For months now, the Russian army has been irked at coming across Azerbaijani weapons in the hands of Ukrainian fighters. Putin's administration
