Expert: Azerbaijani armed forces were never victorious

PanARMENIAN.Net - Head of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry’s press office, Eldar Sabiroglu, who never participated in military operations is not competent enough to assess the fighting efficiency of the Azerbaijani army, an Armenian political analyst said.

Earlier, Sabiroglu described the Azerbaijani army as the strongest in the South Caucasus.

“Theoretic assumptions which originate from defective knowledge sound ridiculous,” head of Voskanapat analytical center Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

“Azerbaijani armed forces were never victorious. During the years of Karabakh war, the only ‘success’ of Azerbaijan was the seizure of Shahumyan and Getashen, an operation that became possible only with the help of the soviet divisions. As to the real ‘strength’ of the Azeri army, it was clearly demonstrated after withdrawal of the soviet troops,” he said.