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Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) said that Russia’s aerial defences were liable for shooting down an Azerbaijani airliner successful December that killed 38 radical successful his archetypal admittance of blasted for the crash.
Mr. Putin made the connection astatine a gathering with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev successful Tajikistan’s superior of Dushanbe, wherever some are attending a acme of the erstwhile Soviet nations.
The Azerbaijan Airlines rider pitchy crashed connected December 25, 2024, portion connected a formation from Baku to Grozny, the determination superior of the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Azerbaijani authorities said the pitchy was accidentally deed by occurrence from Russian aerial defenses, past tried to onshore successful occidental Kazakhstan erstwhile it crashed, sidesplitting 38 of 67 radical aboard.
Mr. Putin has apologised to Mr. Aliyev for what helium called a “tragic incident” but stopped abbreviated of acknowledging responsibility.
Mr. Aliyev, meanwhile, criticised Moscow for trying to “hush up” the incident
