Putin gives details of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane with 38 dead

He went connected to accent that the causes of the mishap were linked, among different things, to the beingness of a Ukrainian drone successful Russian airspace astatine those captious moments. As helium said, connected this time 3 drones of the Ukrainian equipped forces had crossed the Russian border.

“The 2nd crushed concerns method failures successful the Russian aerial defence strategy itself. The 2 missiles fired did not straight deed the plane. If that had happened, it would person crashed instantly. Instead, they exploded – astir apt self-destructing – a fewer meters away, astir 10 meters,” the Russian president said, clarifying that the craft was astir apt deed by debris and not by the munitions themselves.

Furthermore, helium said that the AZAL unit had the accidental to marque a landing successful Makhachkala, but the pilots decided to head, successful the end, to their archetypal destination.

Putin noted that the causes of the clang became wide aft a thorough investigation of the incident, adding that Russia would besides behaviour a ineligible appraisal of the actions of each applicable officials. “Everything required successful specified tragic cases volition beryllium done by the Russian broadside successful presumption of compensation,” helium added.

The Russian president called it the work of some countries to connection an nonsubjective appraisal and denote the existent causes of the crash, noting that a last solution of the lawsuit would instrumentality time.

Moreover, helium said that lone the time earlier yesterday helium was informed astir the causes of the calamity and made definite to pass them to Aliyev.

It volition beryllium recalled that the craft of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed connected the greeting of December 25, 2024 adjacent the metropolis of Aktau, portion flying from Baku to Grozny. According to the company, 62 passengers and 5 unit members were connected committee the Embraer-190. The mishap killed 38 radical and rescued 29.