Aliyev: Azerbaijan Must Always Be Ready for War

The President of Azerbaijan has stated that the country must always be ready for war.

"We must be ready for war at any moment. Because the processes taking place in the world are developing in such a direction that it is impossible to know what will happen tomorrow," Aliyev said.

He noted that after the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (September-November 2020), Azerbaijan increased the personnel of its special units "by the thousands," acquired the "most modern" unmanned aerial vehicles, and also signed contracts for "new combat aircraft, while the existing aircraft have been fully modernized."

As a reminder, almost simultaneously, on August 21, during a meeting with journalists in Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that Armenia will not increase, or will hardly increase, its spending on armaments in 2026.