Are the people killed in the plane crash in Kazakhstan collateral victims of the war in Ukraine? kyiv and Moscow blame each other for the air disaster which cost the lives of 38 passengers on December 25, while the airline Azerbaijan Airlines pointed to “external, physical and technical interference”.
Ukrainian drones attacked Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, on the day of the crash of the plane, which was on a flight between Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, and Grozny, the Russian agency revealed on Friday. civil aviation Rosaviatsia.
Thick fog and difficult conditions
According to the boss of Rosaviatsia, Dmitri Iadrov, the situation was then “very difficult” at Grozny airport, where there was also “thick fog” which prevented all visibility “at an altitude of 500 meters”. “The captain made two attempts to land in Grozny, which failed. Other airports are proposed to him. He decides to go to Aktau airport, in Kazakhstan, he said.
It crashed and caught fire in still unclear circumstances near Aktau, a Caspian Sea port located in western Kazakhstan and far from its destination. The presence of Ukrainian drones in this area of Russian airspace reinforces the hypothesis, mentioned by numerous media, of a missile fired by Russian anti-aircraft defense to explain the crash. For its part, Ukraine believes that Russia “must be held responsible”.
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