Summary
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Russia of shooting at the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 38 people and injuring 29.
Aliyev claimed the plane was damaged by ground fire and electronic warfare systems near Grozny, dismissing Russian explanations like bird strikes or gas cylinder explosions as “absurd.”
This follows Vladimir Putin’s apology, which Aliyev criticized as inadequate.
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This is so tragic.
It must be pretty stressful to be the president of a country like Azerbaijan in this situation. What are you going to do? I’m surprised he has been this frank in his anger. Calling out Russia under Putin in a situation like this seems like it has a lot of downsides and no real upsides.
Good for him. People shouldn’t die like this.
Probably kill some Armenians about it. The dude is kinda a crazy dictator.
True enough, but without Russia’s support he has two choices: gradually become less crazy or die in a coup. So in my book this is a really good move!
