In a telephone conversation with the Azerbaijani president, Putin “apologized for the fact that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deepest and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished them a speedy recovery.” ”
Russian President Vladimir Putin today apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, for the “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving him, as reported by the Kremlin in a statement.
According to the note, in a telephone conversation with the President of Azerbaijan, Putin apologized for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deepest and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished the wounded good luck . recovery.
The statement adds that, as communicated to the President of Azerbaijan, “that has been observed the plane of Azerbaijani passengers, who flew strictly according to the schedule, repeatedly tried to land at Grozny airport“, the capital of the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
The statement at the time underlined: “Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz were too attacked by Ukrainian combat drones and the Russian air defense systems were disposed of these attacks.”
The AZAL plane, an Embraer 190 that was on flight J2-8243 Baku-Grozny, was eventually diverted to the airport in the Kazakh city of Aktau, where it crashed, killing 38 of the 67 people on board.
On Friday, AZAL said the aircraft suffered from “external physical and technical interference”, as shown by the “preliminary results” of the investigation.
The day before, just over 24 hours after the plane crash, two Azerbaijani government sources said the passenger plane had been hit by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft missile while flying in Grozny airspace.
Source: EITB
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