Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev following the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan, which killed 38 people.
Russia n President Vladimir Putin apologized to Ilham Aliyev , the president of Azerbaijan , after an Azerbaijan Airlines plane destined for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. In his first comments since the crash that killed 38 out of the 67 people on board, Putin expressed his condolences but stopped short of saying Moscow was responsible. Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin and the Azerbaijan i foreign ministry for further comment.
Azerbaijan is an ally of Russia and it could be diplomatically difficult for Putin if Moscow was confirmed to be behind the crash. Anton Barbashin, editorial director of Riddle Russia, an online journal of Russian affairs, posted on X on Friday that Azerbaijan is 'crucial for Russia's regional infrastructure ambitions' and that he believed Putin would have to apologize. U.S. officials had said that Moscow was responsible for the plane crash although Baku had not officially blamed Russia. Azerbaijan did say that the plane had been subject to 'external interference' as it tried to land. Flight 8243, which was en route from Azerbaijan's capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny, crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, killing at least 38 people. 'Vladimir Putin apologized for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' the Kremlin said in a statement. The Kremlin said that as the plane tried to land in Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ukrainian drones were conducting attacks. 'During this time, Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz were being attacked by Ukrainian combat drones and Russian air defense was repelling these attacks,' the Kremlin said Putin told Aliyev, without saying that Russian air defenses hit the plane
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