# Putin: Armenia’s EU-ward movement amounts to de facto EAEU withdrawal

https://mins.news/en/item/40795

- TASS, 2026-09-01 18:23 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2180675

> Russian President Vladimir Putin said Armenia’s push to join the European Union must mean it plans to leave the Eurasian Economic Union, arguing that membership in both economic organizations is impossible. He told Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that a law launching the accession procedure effectively amounted to announcing withdrawal from the EAEU.

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