Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday accused Russia of trying to hide the fact that the national airline’s plane which crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday had come under fire from Russian territory, and demanded a public apology from Moscow. .
“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,” Ilham Aliev said in a television interview, taken up by the Azertag press agency. It also said 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 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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