The Azerbaijani prosecutor’s office said Monday that Russia had promised to identify and punish those involved in Wednesday’s crash of an Azerbaijani airliner, which Baku said was hit by Russian fire.
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By accusing Russia on Sunday, December 29, of having wanted to cover up the reasons which caused the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane on Wednesday in Kazakhstan, Ilham Aliev made Moscow move. Russian justice has announced that it is looking for those responsible for this disaster to bring them to justice.
Moscow assured Baku that intensive measures were being taken to identify those responsible for the air disaster that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane suffered on Wednesday while trying to land in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee, similarly assured his Azerbaijani counterpart, Kamran Aliev, that these officials would be brought to justice. According to Azerbaijani Prosecutor General Kamran Aliev, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, told him that “ intensive measures were taken to identify the culprits and bring them to criminal accountability for their actions “.
Moscow also promised to “ conduct a complete, exhaustive and objective investigation » on this accident, in addition to the investigations carried out in Kazakhstan, where the aircraft crashed, said the Azerbaijani prosecutor’s office in a press release. At the same time, he informed him that the most experienced investigators had been put on this file in order to establish all the causes and circumstances of this tragedy.
The telephone conversation between the two men took place the day after a very firm statement by the Azerbaijani president. Ilham Aliev had in fact accused Moscow on Sunday of having wanted to cover up the real circumstances of this accident and demanded that the Russian authorities recognize their guilt, compensate the victims and that those responsible for this disaster be punished.
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Vladimir Putin apologized to Ilham Aliev on Saturday, not for having shot down this civilian plane, but because this tragic incident took place in Russian airspace at the time when a Ukrainian drone attack took place in the Grozny region.
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Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which was traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny, Chechnya, crashed near the town of Aktau, Kazakhstan. The accident killed at least 38 people out of the 62 passengers and five crew members on board.