A Kremlin assertion mentioned air defence programs have been firing close to Grozny on Wednesday, however stopped in need of saying one among these hit the airplane.
The Azerbaijan Airways airplane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when it turned towards Kazakhstan and crashed whereas attempting to land.
It killed 38 folks, however 29 folks managed to outlive. Putin expressed “his deep and honest condolences to the households of the victims,” an announcement from the Kremlin mentioned on Saturday.
An official probe into the crash has not but completed, however survivors advised authorities they heard three blasts that appeared to come back from exterior because the plane flew over Grozny.
The investigation is specializing in what “weapon” prompted the incident, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Growth and Transport Rashad Nabiyev mentioned on Friday after talking with among the survivors.
The Kremlin assertion added that air defence programs have been firing close to Grozny on Wednesday attributable to a Ukrainian drone strike, however stopped in need of saying one among these hit the airplane.
It additionally famous that the airplane had repeatedly tried to land on the airport in Grozny.
On Saturday Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that he too had spoken together with his Azerbaijani counterpart.
Afterwards he posted on X: “Russia should present clear explanations and cease spreading disinformation. Photographs and movies clearly present the harm to the plane’s fuselage, together with punctures and dents, which strongly level to a strike by an air defencee missile.”
On Thursday, Azerbaijani authorities sources confirmed to Euronews that an preliminary investigation revealed a Russian surface-to-air missile was fired on the airplane because it flew over Chechnya.
