Portraits and graffiti depicting the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev have appeared in the Russian capital. The inscriptions on them read: "Stop paying for Aliyev's Russophobia" and "Our partner Aliyev supports Kyiv."

The day before, Ilham Aliyev and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky had a telephone conversation. They condemned Russia's targeted airstrikes on Azerbaijani oil and gas facilities in Ukraine and agreed that this would not affect cooperation between Baku and Kyiv in the energy sector.

Recall that on June 27, in Yekaterinburg, employees of the Russian National Guard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB detained citizens of Azerbaijan and persons of Azerbaijani origin. They were suspected of involvement in previously committed crimes. Some of them were tortured, two died - 60-year-old Huseyn Safarov and his brother, 55-year-old Ziyaddin Safarov. Baku also noted that other detainees were tortured. Six people were sent to pretrial detention. Subsequently, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan opened a criminal case on the fact of torture and premeditated murder with particular cruelty of two citizens of the country and persons of Azerbaijani origin by Russian law enforcement officers.

On June 30, Azerbaijani security forces arrested in Baku the editor-in-chief of the Russian state agency Sputnik Azerbaijan Igor Kartavykh and editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov. Both were called FSB officers working undercover. The Press Council of Azerbaijan noted that both defendants cooperated with the Russian FSB and were in Baku to carry out assignments unrelated to journalistic activities.