"We can clearly say today that the plane was shot down by Russia," President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised statement

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has accused Russia of accidentally shooting down an airliner on Christmas Day in a disaster that killed 38 people, and covering<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" M

The facts are that the Azerbaijani civilian plane was damaged externally over Russian territory near Grozny, losing control in the process. We also know that electronic warfare systems caused the aircraft to become uncontrollable.