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Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted this was responsible for the air defense of his country To shoot down the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane kazakhstan 38 people died on Christmas Day.
Putin made this statement in a meeting with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev tajikistanCapital Dushanbe on Thursday. Both men are attending the former summit Soviet Nation.
“Of course, whatever is necessary in such tragic cases will be done by the Russian side on compensation and a All official things will be given a legal assessmentPutin said.
“It is our duty, I repeat once again…to give objective assessment of what happened And identifying the true causes.”
Video footage taken on Thursday showed Putin and Aliyev shaking hands and smiling before the meeting, where the Russian leader talked about the accident.
Putin said missiles fired by Russian air defense at Ukrainian drones exploded nearby Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft While taking off from Baku, it was preparing to land in Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic Chechnya.
Ukrainian drones have been regularly carrying out strikes deep inside Russia.
Speaking at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in the Tajikistan capital Dushanbe, where both were attending a summit of former Soviet countries, Putin promised to punish those responsible and provide compensation.
Till now Putin had avoided saying that Russia had shot down the plane, but had apologized for the ‘tragic incident’ in Russian airspace.
Meanwhile, Aliyev criticized moscow For trying to “suppress” the incident.
Chechen air defenses were prepared for incoming Ukrainian drones at the time of the incident.
Azerbaijani government officials told Euronews shortly after the crash that there had been drone activity over Grozny.
He said flight J2-8243 was accidentally hit by Russian air defense forces on December 25 as it tried to land and crashed near Aktau airport.
The pilots sought help from various airports in Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, but were officially denied access to Grozny due to “fog”.
The plane crashed near Aktau after crossing the Caspian Sea. Azerbaijan Said It was hit by “external interference” before it came down.
The crash was closely investigated for months after initial reports found fragments of “foreign metal objects” inside the aircraft.
It said the plane suffered damage, including to its stabilizers, hydraulics and trim systems.