Azerbaijan summons Russian ambassador after missile hits embassy in Kyiv

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Russia’s ambassador to Baku, Mikhail Yevdokimov, on November 14 after an Iskander-type missile struck the grounds of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv. 

According to the ministry’s statement, during the meeting Azerbaijani officials strongly protested and condemned the incident, as well as handed the ambassador a note verbale, Caliber.Az reports.

The ministry informed the envoy that the blast caused “complete destruction of a part of the Embassy’s perimeter wall” and inflicted “damage to structures, service vehicles, the administrative building, and the Consular Section of the Embassy, as well as serious damage to the diplomatic mission’s compound.”No casualties were reported.

The Azerbaijani side stressed that this was not the first such incident involving Russian strikes near its diplomatic missions in Ukraine. Officials recalled that on March 10, 2022, an airstrike on the Honorary Consulate in Kharkiv left the building “seriously damaged” and destroyed a service vehicle.

The ministry also cited a January 2, 2024 strike involving a “Kinzhal” missile, which created a crater “about 35 steps away from the Embassy’s administrative building” and left an unexploded ordnance buried eight meters underground.

Furthermore, Azerbaijani diplomats noted that on August 28, 2025, another airstrike landed roughly 50 meters from the Kyiv embassy, damaging the administrative building, consular section, and the ambassador’s residence.

In addition, the ministry referenced drone attacks on August 8 and 18, 2025, targeting an oil depot belonging to SOCAR in the Odesa region, which resulted in injuries and “significant damage to the infrastructure.”

“It was emphasized that all these facts raise questions about the deliberate nature of the missile attacks,” the statement says.

The ministry also reminded the Russian side that all such incidents had previously been reported through note verbales and that the coordinates of Azerbaijani diplomatic facilities in Ukraine were submitted to Russia in April 2022, when Moscow “assured that the coordinates will be taken into account by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.”

Finally, the ministry stressed that attacks on Azerbaijani "diplomatic missions are unacceptable" and demanded that Russia conduct an "appropriate investigation" and provide a detailed explanation for the strikes.

By Sabina Mammadli