Azerbaijan will deploy special military detachments in the Hadrut region of Nagorno-Karabakh. This is what President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev declared in his speech at the opening of a military unit in Hadrut on Friday.

“The creation of ‘commando’ brigades is an innovation for us. Azerbaijan is creating such brigades that can complete any combat task. This will essentially increase the capacity of our army,” he said.

According to the press service of the President of Azerbaijan, Aliyev stated that ‘Azerbaijan did not end army construction after the war and hasn’t cut the expenditures for the army, on the contrary, it has increased them’.

“The new contracts signed after the war are being implemented, and the most state-of-the-art weapons and equipment are being imported on the basis of those contracts,” he said.

Aliyev stated that the procurement of military equipment, the increase of military expenditures, as well as the rise of the salaries of servicemen go to show that ‘the process of army construction will not end, even though the war is over’.