Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov assured Thursday that we had to “wait for the end of the investigation.”
Russia warned on Thursday against “hypotheses” circulating on the cause of the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which killed 38 people the day before in Kazakhstan, with experts having raised the possibility that the plane was shot down by accident by Russian air defense.
An investigation is underway but some military and aviation experts said the plane, which was flying over an area of the Russian Caucasus where a drone attack was reported, may have been shot down by accident by a Russian air defense system.
“Wait for the end of the investigation”
Speculations that both Russia and Kazakhstan have tried to extinguish. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov assured Thursday that it was necessary “wait for the end of the investigation”. “It would be inappropriate to make any assumptions prior to the findings of the investigation. We won't do it and no one should.”he insisted. The authorities of Kazakhstan, a close ally of Russia, also denounced “speculations”.
The President of the Kazakh Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Maulen Ashimbaev, assured that he was not “not possible” to say for the moment the cause of this catastrophe. Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, expressed his “condolences” to his Azerbaijani counterpart, according to the Kremlin.
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