The Gentleman Report
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Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Saturday that Russia’s air protection methods had been energetic when an Azerbaijan Airways flight tried to land in Grozny, Chechnya on Wednesday.
The airplane was once not able to land and diverted east, in the end crashing close to Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 other people on board.
It’s unconfirmed what was once at the back of the incident, however a US professional informed The Gentleman Report on Thursday that early indications counsel a Russian anti-aircraft gadget can have downed the passenger jet. In his feedback Putin didn’t say that Russian air defenses hit the airplane.
Putin “apologized for the truth that the tragic incident befell in Russian airspace” in a telephone name with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, the Kremlin stated in a observation Saturday.
The Kremlin stated that the airplane “time and again tried to land on the airport in Grozny” however on the identical time, the spaces of “Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz had been attacked by means of Ukrainian fight drones, and Russian air protection methods repelled those assaults.”
Russia’s investigative committee has opened a prison case on the subject of the crisis, the observation stated.
In a observation on Friday, Ukraine’s international minister Andrii Sybiha stated Russian media has “lied about the reason for the crash,” including that Moscow “pressured the broken jet to go the ocean, possibly in an try to hide proof in their crime.”
