Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for a plane crash in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people. While the Kremlin stated that air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike, they stopped short of confirming if the crash was caused by one of these systems. Both US and Azerbaijani officials blamed an external weapon for the crash.
Russia n President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijan i counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijan i airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people.The plane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan ’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russia n republic of Chechnya, when it turned toward Kazakhstan and crashed while making an attempt to land. There were 29 survivors.
In an official statement Saturday, the Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the plane attempted to land, but stopped short of saying one of these hit the plane. According to a Kremlin readout of the call, Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev “for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace.”On Friday, a U.S. official and an Azerbaijani minister made separate statements blaming the crash on an external weapon.Friday’s assessments by Rashan Nabiyev and White House national security spokesman John Kirby echoed those made by outside aviation experts who blamed the crash on Russian air defense systems responding to a Ukrainian attack.Neither Kirby or the Azerbaijani minister directly addressed the statements blaming air defenses.Passengers and crew who survived the crash told Azerbaijani media that they heard loud noises on the aircraft as it was circling over Grozny
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