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 accountability for the deadly catastrophe.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has mentioned 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 as a result of land.
Russia has mentioned its air defences have been working on the time repelling Ukrainian drones however has stopped in need of saying it shot on the airplane.
Aliyev, an in depth ally of Moscow, this week repeated that “guilt” lay with Russia and accused it of “concealment” of the true causes.
“We’re interested by a completely goal and neutral investigation to be able to set up the causes of this disaster,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned on Thursday.
“We’re ready for the outcomes of the fee,” he added, saying Russian “specialists are giving their full cooperation”.
