Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that an Azerbaijani airliner which crashed in Kazakhstan last week was shot down by Russian forces, though unintentionally. He criticized Russia for attempting to conceal the incident for several days.
Azerbaijan 's President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijan i airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia , albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to hush up the issue for days. Aliyev said that the airliner, which crashed Wednesday in Kazakhstan , was hit by fire from the ground over Russia and rendered uncontrollable by electronic warfare. 'We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia . ...
We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,' he told Azerbaijani state television
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