Perhaps it was a flock of birds, Mr. Putin said, or an exploding gas canister. Maybe a Ukrainian drone. But President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan was not buying it, according to two people familiar ...

Azerbaijan's leader Ilham Aliyev told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the Azerbaijani Airlines plane that crashed this week was first hit by "external physical and technical ...

Relations between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin have worsened following the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash. However, this cooling is unlikely to ...

It did not explicitly say one of these hit the plane. The statement said Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev “for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian ...

Putin’s apology to President Ilham Aliyev came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defense systems attempting to fend off a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny ...

The Kremlin said in a statement: "Vladimir Putin apologized for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace." Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday: "I can say with ...

and the Kremlin said Putin apologised to Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev over the "tragic incident" in a phone call, but did not say Russian air defence shot the plane. Moscow had earlier said ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev on Monday once again blamed ... Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized for the disaster in a phone call with Aliyev, saying air defenses were operational in ...

Putin’s apology to President Ilham Aliyev came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defense systems attempting to fend off a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny ...

Putin on Saturday called Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev regarding the plane crash that killed 35 passengers, the aircraft's two pilots and one crew member among its 67 occupants. "During the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed ...