The Embraer jet was likely wrongly targeted as a suspected Ukrainian drone by a Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile shot from ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin told Azerbaijan's leader that two Russian missiles had detonated beside an Azerbaijan Airlines plane last year after Ukrainian drones entered Russian ...

Putin claimed the missiles did not directly strike the aircraft but exploded a few meters away. He said the plane was likely hit by fragments. According to Putin, Russia at the time was “hunting for ...

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has for the first time acknowledged that the crash of an Azerbaijani passenger plane last December was caused by Russian air defense mistakes and promised ...

President Vladimir Putin’s rare acknowledgment of a Russian military mistake came as relations have deteriorated between the two former Soviet states. By Nataliya Vasilyeva President Vladimir V. Putin ...

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the ...

President Vladimir Putin admitted to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that Russia played a role in the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet that killed at least 38 people, his first ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin told Azerbaijan's leader that two Russian missiles had detonated beside an Azerbaijan Airlines plane last year after Ukrainian drones entered Russian ...

Putin pledges compensation for 'tragic' plane incident Russian missiles detonated near Azerbaijan Airlines plane Aliyev criticized initial Moscow response, thanks Putin for investigation MOSCOW, Oct 9 ...