Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised on Saturday over the crash of an Azerbaijani Airlines plane, though he stopped short of accepting that it
XMAS TRAGEDY. In this handout picture released by Kazakhstan’s emergency situations ministry on Thursday, emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau. AFP might have been hit by Russian fire.
And on the streets of Baku, several residents AFP spoke to said they expected an official apology from their Russian ally.“During this time, Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz were being attacked by Ukrainian combat drones and Russian air defence was repelling these attacks,” Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript.
“President Ilham Aliyev emphasised that the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane encountered external physical and technical interference while in Russian airspace, resulting in a complete loss of control,” Baku’s presidency said. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said he also spoke to Aliyev Saturday and called on “every country to put pressure on Russia to stop the lies about this disaster.”
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