MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he known as a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 individuals.
The aircraft was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when it turned towards Kazakhstan and crashed whereas attempting to land. There have been 29 survivors.
In an official assertion Saturday, the Kremlin mentioned air protection techniques had been firing close to Grozny on Wednesday as a consequence of a Ukrainian drone strike, however stopped wanting saying one in every of these hit the aircraft.
On Friday, a U.S. official and an Azerbaijani minister made separate statements blaming the crash on an exterior weapon.
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