Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev and called for increased pressure on Russia over the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, urging the aggressor to "tell the truth" and disclose the details of the crime.

The Kremlin has declined to state that Russian forces were responsible for downing the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 on December 25, 2024. Russia acknowledged that its air defense systems were active at the time of the incident to shoot down Ukrainian drones but has stopped short of saying it brought down the aircraft.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said the Azerbaijani Airlines passenger ... for Grozny – the capital of Russia’s Chechnya republic – were only announced after the plane had been “shot from the ground.” Azerbaijan says the plane was riddled ...

Dmitry Peskov says authorities are working 'diligently' to determine causes of Dec. 25 crash, which killed 38 people

In Davos, President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the development of bilateral relations with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and expressed condolences over the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane and the loss of life.

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

ASTANA – Joint investigations are underway into the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane near Aktau, in coordination with authorities of Kazakhstan and Russia, including the Prosecutor’s Office and law enforcement agencies, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Kamran Aliyev told media, reported Trend on Jan. 20.

Europe warns its airlines to stay away through next summer, as Ukraine turns skies of western Russia into a battlefield.

Moscow plans to eventually supply as much as 55 billion cubic metres per year to help Tehran tackle energy shortage

Following deadly plane crashes in Kazakhstan and South Korea at the end of December 2024, a clip from a flight simulator has racked up more than one million views in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a real passenger jet crash-landing.

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DALLAS — A detailed transcript of radio communications has emerged, documenting the harrowing final hours of Azerbaijan Airlines (J2) Flight 8243, which crashed near Aktau on December 25, resulting in 38 fatalities among its 67 occupants.