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President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan’s president for what the Kremlin called a “tragic incident” over Russia in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed after Russian air defences were fired against Ukrainian drones. The extremely rare public apology from Putin was the closest Moscow had come to accepting some blame for Wednesday’s disaster, […]
Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday that Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before crashing, breaking the Kremlin’s silence as speculation mounted Russia may have accidentally shot down the plane. The Russian leader called his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, apologizing for the incident that took place in Russian […]
Президент России Владимир Путин провел телефонный разговор с президентом Азербайджана Ильхамом Алиевым в связи с крушением самолета Azerbaijan Airlines в казахстанском Актау, сообщила днем 28 декабря пресс-служба Кремля. В сообщении отмечается, что разговор состоялся по инициативе российской стороны. Путин принес извинения Алиеву за то, что «трагический инцидент произошел в воздушном пространстве России», и выразил соболезнования семьям погибших. Согласно сообщению Кремля, Путин заявил, что следовавший по расписанию самолет […]
Azerbaijan Plane Crash: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people. The plane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of […]
Vladimir Putin speaking in the Kremlin in Moscow on Saturday. Putin has apologized after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight destined for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. Vladimir Putin speaking in the Kremlin in Moscow on Saturday. Putin has apologized after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight destined for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. Sergei […]
Putin apologises for ‘tragic incident’ involving Azerbaijan Airlines plane Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for what the Kremlin said was a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on 25 December. The Kremlin said as the aircraft attempted to […]
Russian air defence systems may have brought down an Azerbaijani airliner this week, a US official said on Friday after an Azerbaijani minister also suggested the plane was hit by a weapon, citing expert analysis and survivor accounts. Friday’s assessments by Rashan Nabiyev and White House National Security spokesman John Kirby echoed those made by […]
The deadly crash this week of an Azerbaijani passenger jet — with Russian air defenses as the suspected culprit — brings into focus a little-noticed aspect of the war in Ukraine: a battle zone that extends deep into Russia. Ukraine for months has been using domestically tooled drones to strike Russian targets hundreds of miles […]
Flight attendants and a passenger described the moments before an Azerbaijan Airlines flight went down in Kazakhstan, killing dozens. Source link
Azerbaijan Airlines flight’s tragic crash this week, which claimed 38 lives and left 29 survivors injured, occurred amid a backdrop of escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Russian aviation chief Dmitry Yadrov confirmed on Friday that the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which was en route from Baku to Grozny, occurred as Ukrainian drones […]