Azerbaijan’s president says he expects Moscow to confess guilt, punish the ones accountable and pay reimbursement after aircraft crash in Kazakhstan.
Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev mentioned on Sunday {that a} passenger aircraft that crashed and killed 38 final week have been broken by means of capturing that got here from the bottom while the aircraft was once in Russian airspace.
Aliyev mentioned on state tv that Baku calls for Moscow’s “acknowledgement of guilt, punishment of the accountable and cost of reimbursement.”
Azerbaijani executive assets showed to Euronews that an preliminary investigation printed a Russian surface-to-air missile was once fired on the aircraft on Wednesday because it flew over Chechnya.
“We have now obviously conveyed our calls for to the Russian aspect, they had been passed over already on 27 December. What had been they? Originally, the Russian aspect must apologise to Azerbaijan. Secondly, recognise its guilt. Thirdly, to punish the ones accountable, carry them to prison accountability and pay reimbursement to each the state and the injured passengers and group participants.”
“Those are our prerequisites. The primary of them was once already fulfilled the previous day. I am hoping that the remainder of our calls for may also be glad,” Aliyev mentioned.
On the similar time, the Azerbaijani president famous that the aircraft was once no longer shot down on objective.
“In fact, our aircraft was once shot down no longer on objective. To confess guilt, to apologise in time to Azerbaijan, which is thought of as a pleasant nation, and to carry this to the general public – these types of had been measures and steps that needed to be taken,” the top of state mentioned.
On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised in a phone dialog with Aliyev for the “tragic incident” involving the Azerbaijan Airways aircraft in Russian airspace.
Putin claimed Ukrainian drones attacked Grozny in Chechnya, in addition to the towns of Vladikavkaz and Mozdok, on the similar time the flight approached to land, pronouncing “Russian air defences repelled those assaults”.
“In fact, the general model can be identified after the black packing containers are opened,” mentioned Aliyev, “However the preliminary variations are sufficiently substantiated and in accordance with information.”
“The information are that the Azerbaijani civil airplane was once broken from outdoor at the territory of Russia, close to the town of Grozny, and nearly misplaced keep an eye on. We additionally know that our airplane was once rendered uncontrollable by the use of digital battle. That is the primary harm to the airplane. As well as, because of the fireplace opened from the bottom, the tail phase of the airplane was once additionally badly broken.”