Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijan, explained how the plane crashed

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to the President of Azerbaijan for the tragic incident of an Azerbaijani plane crash in Kazakhstan on Saturday. 38 people died in this accident. The plane had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Chechnya’s capital Grozny on Wednesday. Shortly after takeoff, its course was diverted and the plane crashed while attempting to land in Kazakhstan. 38 people died and 29 were injured in this accident.

The Russian presidential office, the Kremlin, said in an official statement on Saturday that air defense systems fired near Grozny as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack on December 25. However, it refrained from saying that one of them collided with the plane.

A day earlier on December 27, Russia’s aviation chief also said that earlier this week, when an Azerbaijani airliner crashed while trying to land before heading to Kazakhstan, a Ukrainian drone strike in Chechnya region. was doing

Officials in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia initially withheld information about the possible cause of the crash until an official investigation was completed, but Azerbaijani parliamentarian Rasim Musabekov blamed Moscow for the crash, which has now been proven true.

Rasim Musabekov told Azerbaijan’s Turan news agency on December 26 that the plane was fired upon in the skies over Grozny. He asked Russia to issue an official apology.

When the official investigation into the crash began, some aviation experts said that the holes seen in the rear of the plane indicated that it might have been the victim of a counterattack by Russian air defense systems to avoid a Ukrainian drone attack and Now that Putin has apologized, it proves that the Azerbaijani plane was a victim of the Russian attack.