Serzhik Recognized Supply of Iskander and Threatened to Seize New Areas

Placement of missile systems Iskander in Armenia was a forced measure, and was aimed to balance the military forces, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said on November 16 in an interview with the Russian TV pundits Dmitry Kiselev.

According to him, it was "a necessary measure", as Azerbaijan has received the latest weapons for many years, but Armenia did not have such financial opportunities. Therefore, Russia helped it by supplying the complexes Iskander.

The day before the Armenian President in an interview with Voice of Armenia said the Azerbaijani army is strong only in words. Then he moved on to Ilham Aliyev, accusing him of incompetence.

"With these militant statements Ilham Aliyev's regime wants to maintain its power. For all these years the policy of the Azerbaijani leadership has created complexes of inferiority and defeated. They have always claimed that Azerbaijan is stronger than Armenia, and they have modern weapons, petrodollars, using which they can at any time capture Nagorno-Karabakh. Faced with the opposite reality in the April war, the Azerbaijani leadership did not achieve its goal and now has to justify the suffered human and military-technical losses,” said Sargsyan.

“If the Azerbaijani army in the presence of modern weapons and with the complicity of the outside could not in four days cope with the relatively small armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh, suffered heavy losses, taking a couple of heights, then this is an indicator of their combat capability and not statements of Aliyev,” he said.

The impression is that Aliyev is trying to win over the minds of his people, presenting wishes as reality and ‘ridiculously making a hero.”

“I got the impression that Baku refers to military action as a computer game of soldiers. But they risk the fate of the whole people, not realizing the reality: in the case of a new war Azerbaijan will pay an excessively high price.”

“If at the time Mr. Aliyev had served in the army, he would not have measured and celebrated the victory of a single operation, and he would have drawn conclusions from the April war.”

“If the leadership in Baku wants to try their luck again, let them prepare for the worst-case scenario. Because then they will have no one to blame for the loss of cities and regions,” said Sargsyan. -02D-