Russia says Ukraine shot down a military transport carrying 65 captured Ukrainians. Ukraine has not confirmed its role, ...

Thirty eight people were killed and dozens survived a plane crash in Kazakhstan while traveling to southern Russia, according to local officials, as speculation swirls online that Russia could ...

Azerbaijan’s president said Russia shot down a passenger airliner, accusing Moscow of trying to cover up the issue for days. Ilham Aliyev said the plane had been damaged due to “unintentional ...

Vladimir Putin apologized Saturday after the US and Azerbaijan accused Russia of shooting down a passenger plane, killing 38 people. Putin, speaking to his Azerbaijani counterpart, called it a ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed this week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush ...

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said last Sunday that Russia unintentionally shot the plane down. He said the aircraft was hit by fire from the ground over Russia and "rendered uncontrollable by ...

“We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia. (…) We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,” he told Azerbaijani state televisio ...

A Kremlin statement did not say Russia had shot down the plane, only noting a criminal case had been opened. "Our plane was shot down by accident," Mr Aliyev told state television, adding that the ...

Aliyev said air defence measures for Grozny — the capital of Russia’s Chechnya Republic — were only announced after the plane had been “shot from the ground”.

Mr Aliyev told Azerbaijani state television: “We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia... We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done.