The tomb of Mahammadali Eganov, 13 who died in the Azerbaijan Airlines crash (Picture: Getty)
A plane which crashed killing 38 people on Christmas Day was shot at from the ground as it travelled over Russia, the president of Azerbaijan said.
Ilham Aliyev said today that he regretted that ‘some circles’ in Russia had tried to hush up the truth by sowing false narratives about what caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane to crash.
State television reported that he said the passenger plane, which came down in Kazakhstan, had been damaged by shooting from the ground.
Yesterday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apologised to Aliyev for the ‘tragic incident’ and acknowledged that Russian air defences had been firing in the vicinity of Grozny in Chechnya at the time the plane passed through the area.
But he stopped short of admitting Russian responsibility for the crash.
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