Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to Azerbaijan’s President for the truth that an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft crashed in Russian airspace, the Kremlin stated on Saturday. Dozens of passengers had been killed and wounded within the crash that aviation specialists speculated was hit by Russian air defence techniques responding to a Ukrainian drone assault.
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