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A Russian Pantsir-S air defence system, which preliminary investigations show may have shot down the aircraft (Getty/iStock) Fatal flightpath: the course of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on 25 ...
Asked about the possibility that Russian air defences shot at the plane, the Kazakh transport prosecutor for the region where the plane came down said the investigation had yet to reach a firm ...
The nearest Russian airport on the plane's flight path was closed on Wednesday morning. ... Some were reportedly shot down in closed air space over regions bordering Ukraine, including the Sea of ...
The HUR also hypothesized that the aircraft might have been shot down by friendly fire while Russian air defenses tried to intercept a drone. Reacting to Russian assertion of POWs on board, it also said that Russia was possibly using Ukrainian POWs as human shields to transport weapons and ammunition. [49]
[168] [169] [170] This news was repeated by channels in Russia, with LifeNews reporting "a new victory of Donetsk self-defence who shot down yet another Ukrainian airplane". [171] Russian news agency TASS also reported eyewitness accounts claiming that the Donbas militia had just shot down a Ukrainian An-26 military aircraft with a missile. [172]
According to Kommersant, the fallen aircraft were part of the same aviation group.The fighters were supposed to launch a missile strike on Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast, while the helicopters were to "insure" the aircrews were safe and to make sure the Russian soldiers did not get shot down by the Ukrainian forces.
Russia's leader apologises for the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace - without directly taking blame. ... This Olay anti-aging cream is down to $18: 'In one week, wrinkles are ...
A poll conducted by Alexei Venediktov, former head of the Echo of Moscow radio station, found that 60% of respondents believed Prigozhin's airplane was either shot down or blown up on board, and 17% believed he had staged his own death. Only 1% believed the aircraft crash was accidental. [84]