President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has apologized to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for what the Kremlin said was a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving the Azerbaijan Airlines Plane that crashed on Christmas day in Kazakhstan.
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| Azerbaijan Airlines Plane crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas day |
According to timesofisrael:
Putin tells Aliyev that Russian air defense was active when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before it crashed in a phone call, the Kremlin says.
“During this time, Grozny, (the town of) Mozdok and Vladikavkaz were being attacked by Ukrainian combat drones and Russian air defense was repelling these attacks,” the Kremlin says Putin told Aliyev, without explicitly acknowledging that that Russian air defenses hit the plane.
The Azerbaijan Airlines Plane Crash happened in Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing thirty-eight (38) people.
Twenty-eight (28) people survived.
