Telephone conversation between the presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan about the Azerbaijani plane

According to RCO News Agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Kazakh President Kasim Jomart Toqayev.

According to the Kremlin statement, the leaders of the two countries expressed their condolences over the crash of the Azerbaijani passenger plane near the city of Aktau on December 25.

The crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in the morning of Wednesday, December 25 with 67 passengers left 38 dead and 29 people were rescued.

Flight J2-8243, which had left Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for the city of Grozny in Russia, had to change its route for unknown reasons and had to make an emergency landing about 3 kilometers from the city of “Aghtav” in Kazakhstan.

This landing was accompanied by the fire of the plane and the destruction of half of its body, leaving significant casualties.

Both pilots of this plane were killed in this accident.

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev described this incident as a “big tragedy” and announced that the Prime Minister will lead a commission to investigate this incident.

On Thursday, an informed source in Baku claimed to Euronews that “a Russian surface-to-air missile hit” caused the plane to crash.

On the other hand, on Saturday evening, in a call with his Azerbaijani counterpart, the President of Russia apologized for the air accident that occurred in Russian airspace.

The Kremlin cautioned against drawing any conclusions before the investigation is complete. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: “It is wrong to present any hypothesis before the investigation is concluded. “Certainly, neither we nor anyone else should do such a thing.”

Azerbaijan Airlines announced that it has suspended all flight schedules between Baku and Grozny, as well as flights between Baku and Makhachkala (the capital of the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in Russia), pending the investigation.

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