"Had Hadrut not been liberated from occupiers, it would have been more difficult to reach Shusha. However, the Shusha operation has already become a saga," President Ilham Aliyev told the opening of a new military unit in Hadrut on December 24, Report informs.
"The Shusha operation is now being discussed and analyzed in the world's leading military schools, and many cannot believe, particularly those who were in Shusha, that the heroic sons of Azerbaijan climbed the rocks with light weapons and liberated Shusha, our cultural capital and the crown of Karabakh," the president said.