Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised on Saturday over the crash of an Azerbaijani Airlines plane, though he stopped short of accepting that it might have been hit by Russian fire.
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Flowers are seen left at the stairs of Azerbaijan's Embassy in Moscow on December 26, 2024 as tribute to the victims of Azerbaijan Airlines' plane crash. The Kremlin on December 26, 2024 cautioned against "hypotheses" over the crash of an Azerbaijani plane which had been due to land in Russia as experts pointed to possible evidence of a missile explosion. The Azerbaijan Airlines jet crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub, on December 25, 2024. Thirty-eight of the 67 people on board died. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
2024-12-29 10:09:04
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised on Saturday over the crash of an Azerbaijani Airlines plane, though he stopped short of accepting that it might have been hit by Russian fire.
Putin did admit that Russian air defences were at work when the passenger plane tried to land in Grozny before crashing, and the Kremlin said Putin apologised to Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev over the "tragic incident" in a phone call, but did not say Russian air defence shot the plane.
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