Putin apologises for plane crash, without saying Russia at fault

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan for the downing of a commercialized airliner successful Russian airspace, successful which 38 radical were killed - but stopped abbreviated of saying Russia was responsible.

In his archetypal comments connected the Christmas time crash, Putin said the "tragic incident" had occurred erstwhile Russian aerial defence systems were actively repelling Ukrainian drones.

It had been reported the level came nether occurrence from Russian aerial defence systems arsenic it tried to onshore successful Chechnya - forcing it to divert crossed the Caspian Sea.

It crash-landed successful Kazakhstan, sidesplitting 38 of the 67 connected board.

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