“The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan stated that Baku expects Russia to fulfill its obligations in connection with this incident.”, — write: www.unian.ua
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan stated that Baku expects Russia to fulfill its obligations in connection with this incident.
Bairamov reminded that the Russian Federation recognized the fact that the plane was damaged and also promised to pay compensation / UNIAN collage, photo – wikipedia.org, screenshotRussia has stopped the investigation into the crash of the AZAL plane, which raises serious questions in Baku. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Report writes.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan told journalists that the Investigative Committee of Russia sent a letter to Azerbaijan based on the results of the investigation into the plane crash, the content of which was surprising.
“The letter stated that the criminal case has already been closed. Of course, such a step raises very serious questions for us,” Bayramov noted.
The minister emphasized that Azerbaijan expects Russia to fulfill its obligations in connection with this incident. He reminded that Moscow recognized the fact that the plane was damaged and also promised to pay compensation.
“This was an important statement. We expect that this process will be brought to an end,” Bayramov said.
AZAL plane crash – what you should knowIt will be recalled that the Embraer 190 plane crash of “Azerbaijan Airlines” (AZAL) occurred on December 25, 2024. It was on flight J2-8243 Baku-Grozny and crashed 3 km from Aktau in Kazakhstan.
At the beginning of 2025, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, blamed the incident on representatives of the Russian Federation. He also exposed the Russian authorities in attempts to hide the circumstances of the plane crash.
At a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Tajikistan in October, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin admitted that the cause of the tragedy could have been debris from two missiles fired by Russia’s air defense system. According to the head of the Kremlin, the missiles allegedly did not hit the plane, but exploded a few meters from it.
In addition, Putin shifted the blame for this incident to Ukraine. He stated that Russian air defense allegedly tried to shoot down Ukrainian drones, but an AZAL plane came under attack.
Reuters, citing a source in the Azerbaijani government, wrote that the plane was shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft missile system “Pantsir-S”. Journalists were told that a fragment of a Russian missile was recovered from the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan:
We will remind that 67 people were on board the plane. As a result of the disaster, 38 people died, and 29 people survived.
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