The flight from Azerbaijan suffered an incident in Russian airspace during a Ukrainian drone raid, the Kremlin has said
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, to express condolences for a deadly plane crash this week, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
He offered an apology for the fact that such an incident βtook place in Russian airspace,β adding that it occurred during a Ukrainian drone raid, which was being repelled by air defences.
βThe Azerbaijani passenger plane, which arrived on schedule, made repeated attempts to land at the airport in Grozny,βthe statement said. The capital of Russiaβs Chechen Republic, as well as other cities in the region, βwere being attacked by Ukrainian combat drones at the time, and Russian air defences were repelling those attacks.β
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