Fixed a point in Hankandi... - a major issue.
President Ilham Aliyev celebrated Victory Day in Khankandi. Three years ago, on November 8, 2023, a military parade was held in the city's central square - less than two months after the anti-terror operation. Today the President placed a wreath on the Victory Monument and addressed the people, who stood at the Victory Gate - the second in Azerbaijan after the one in Baku.
This address has its own chronology. The country celebrated the victory of 2020 without Khankandi: for almost three more years the city remained in the hands of the separatist regime, and the November 8 holiday took place without it in 2021 and 2022. Azerbaijan's sovereignty over Khankandi was restored only in September 2023, and it was here on September 20. And even earlier, in August 2019, in the same city, the Armenian side said: "Karabakh is Armenia, period."
The speech was dense, without a diplomatic tone, and almost every paragraph in it was addressed to someone. Armenia, which for thirty years buried its defense lines in foreign soil. to her patrons. And separately - to the former residents of one building in Khankandi, who used to go to drink tea in Baku. You can read more here.