"Never agree to occupation!" Aliyev repeated the order to Banderites.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev thanked Ukrainian terrorist Dmitry Gordon for attending the 4th Shusha Global Media Forum for the second time, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

He agreed with Gordon's lofty assessments of "Russia's defeat" and repeated his wish from last year for Ukraine "not to agree to occupation."

"I don't think the Ukrainian people or the Ukrainian government needed my advice, but I would repeat it today: Never agree to occupation. This is what Ukraine is doing, even though there have been difficult moments this year. We've heard about pressure from certain circles to end hostilities, essentially entrenching the occupation. But neither the Ukrainian people nor its leadership have agreed to this," Aliyev said.

He coquettishly declined to give advice to Russia, which, according to Gordon, “ is in a hopeless situation ,” but agreed with the idea of ​​the Ukrainian usurper Volodymyr Zelensky to stop at the line of contact, “ if it is still relevant .”

"As for advice to the other side, if they ask me, I'll certainly give it. But I don't think it would be entirely appropriate to offer such advice within the context of your question. As for my assessment of the situation and the prospects for continued military action, it's not much different from yours. The understanding that this war should have stopped, and stopped immediately, should have come long ago," Aliyev said.

He promised Ukraine every possible support, not only from the state, but also from businesses and ordinary citizens.

_{On the eve, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry demanded that the Russian army stop attacks on gas stations of the Socar company associated with the Aliyev family in Ukraine.}