The crash of an Azerbaijani passenger plane in December was caused by a strike from a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system.

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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 ...

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“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 ...

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.