I must also note that after the operation “Retribution” hundreds of Armenian military personnel were withdrawn from Karabakh. On Friday, August 12, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with Azerbaijani television in the village of Basagal, Ismailinsky district.
The head of state noted that this shows that, “unfortunately, such operations affect.”
“I speak” unfortunately, because it was not necessary to bring to this. Just if Armenia correctly analyzed our warnings and made the correct conclusions, this operation would not be required. In any case, we would not have begun the first . We have achieved what we wanted: we fixed and fix ourselves on our land, ”said the president of Azerbaijan.