The Kremlin said its military defense systems were active against Ukraine’s drone strikes in the area where the Azerbaijan Airlines flight, carrying 67 passengers, was attempting to land.
The plane, an Embraer 190 aircraft model, was flying Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to Grozny, a city in Russia’s Chechnya republic, a region of the country that has often used air defense system to shoot down Ukraine’s drones.
After multiple unsuccessful attempts to land, the aircraft crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan on the Caspian Sea.
On Friday, the White House said the “early indications” showed that Russia’s air defense systems were responsible for downing the plane. The same day, Azerbaijan Airlines said in a statement that the airline’s plane was knocked down by “physical and technical external interference.”
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