The Azerbaijani president accused Russia on Sunday, December 29, of trying to hide that the plane of the national airline which crashed Wednesday in Kazakhstan had come under fire from Russian territory, and demanded a public apology from Moscow. . Ilham Aliev claimed that the aircraft had been targeted by “fire” coming from Russian territory, while the trail of a Russian anti-aircraft missile seemed to be confirmed.
“The facts are that the Azerbaijani civil plane was damaged from the outside over Russian territory […] the tail of the plane was seriously damaged by fire from the ground,” Mr. Aliyev said in a television interview, carried by the Azertag news agency. He also indicated that the plane had been rendered “uncontrollable “by military means of electronic jamming.
Ilham Aliev estimated that the various versions of the facts put forward by Russia after the crash “clearly show that the Russian side wanted to cover up the affair”. “Admitting (one’s) guilt, issuing a timely apology to Azerbaijan, which is considered a friendly country, and informing the public about it, these are all measures and steps that should have been taken,” he said. -he said on national television, according to the state agency Azertag.
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