Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday mentioned that the passenger airplane that crashed in Kazakhstan, which noticed 38 folks lifeless was broken attributable to a capturing from the bottom in Russia. Aliyev mentioned that Azerbaijan has formally communicated its calls for to Moscow. In an interview with Azerbaijan Tv, Aliyev mentioned, “The truth that the fuselage is riddled with holes signifies that the speculation of the airplane hitting a flock of birds, which was introduced up by somebody, is totally faraway from the agenda”
Accusing Russia of making an attempt to cowl up the difficulty, the Azerbaijani President mentioned, “One other regrettable and shocking second for us was that official Russian companies put ahead theories in regards to the explosion of some gasoline cylinder on board the airplane. In different phrases, this clearly confirmed that the Russian facet wished to cowl up the difficulty, which, in fact, is unbecoming of anybody.”
The Azerbaijan State Information Company quotes Aliyev saying that the Russian facet should apologize to Azerbaijan and punish those that are accountable, additional including that compensation have to be paid to the Azerbaijani state, in addition to to the injured passengers and crew members.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he known as a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 folks, however stopped wanting acknowledging that Moscow was accountable.
Putin’s apology got here as allegations mounted that the airplane had been shot down by Russian air defences trying to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike close to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.
An official Kremlin assertion issued on Saturday mentioned that air defence methods have been firing close to Grozny airport because the airliner “repeatedly” tried to land there on Wednesday.
It didn’t explicitly say one among these hit the airplane.
The assertion mentioned Putin apologised to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev “for the truth that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace”.
(With company inputs)