Russia appears to be yielding to pressure from Azerbaijan to admit responsibility for the plane crash in Kazakhstan. The Kremlin has so far refused to comment on claims that a Russian missile caused the plane crash.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it tried to make an emergency landing in Aktau, southwestern Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. It was traveling from the Azeri capital Baku to Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that growing evidence points to Russia’s responsibility for the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan. The president compared this tragedy to the downing of a Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight by a Russian Buk missile system in 2014.