On Oct. 9, President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Russian missile defense systems caused the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 on Dec. 25, 2024, killing 38 people. Flight 4K-AZ65, carrying 62 passengers and five crew members, was en route from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Chechnya, when it crashed in western Kazakhstan.
Putin made the admission during a joint press conference with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. “The two missiles that were launched did not directly hit the plane but exploded, possibly due to self-destruction, about ten meters away. That is why the destruction occurred: not from combat elements, but from the debris of the missiles,” he said.
He explained that the missiles were fired in response to Ukrainian drone…more
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