MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Thursday (Jan 9) declined to say Russian forces unintentionally shot at an Azerbaijani airplane which crashed final month, regardless of Baku repeatedly urging it to just accept duty for the deadly catastrophe.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stated the Azerbaijani Airways passenger jet, which crashed in Kazakhstan on Dec 25, killing 38 people, was shot at “from the bottom” over the Russian metropolis of Grozny the place it had been on account of land.
Russia has stated its air defences have been working on the time repelling Ukrainian drones however has stopped wanting saying it shot on the airplane.
Aliyev, a detailed ally of Moscow, this week repeated that “guilt” lay with Russia and accused it of “concealment” of the true causes.
“We’re fascinated with a fully goal and neutral investigation in an effort to set up the causes of this disaster,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Thursday.
“We’re ready for the outcomes of the fee,” he added, saying Russian “specialists are giving their full cooperation”.
