A Kremlin statement said air defence systems were firing near Grozny on Wednesday, but stopped short of saying one of these hit the plane.
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00:00Russia's President Vladimir Putin has called Ilyam Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan,
00:06to apologize for what he called a tragic incident that took place in Russian airspace.
00:12On Wednesday, an Azeri plane was allegedly hit by air defense missiles near Grozny and
00:16later crashed in Kazakhstan.
00:19Putin now said the Russian air defense systems had repelled an attack by Ukraine at the time
00:24of the incident.
00:26Several Azerbaijani survivors say they heard explosions before the crash.
00:30It was a two-time crash, between five and five minutes.
00:36After that, it flew for an hour and a half.
00:40But I don't know where it flew.
00:43After that, Samoyed fell down.
00:48That's why everyone got up.
00:52Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on X that he too spoke to Aliyev and is urging
00:58a thorough investigation into what really happened.