Andrei Vladov
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
It lies somewhere in between because it is very rare for Putin to apologize. This tragedy happened in Russian airspace, but actually the plane crashed in Kazakhstan. What he appears to be apologizing is, and he promised full cooperation in the investigation. is that something happened in airspace that caused the crash of the plane.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
He didn't mention what, but clearly the Kremlin statement points out that the Russian air defenses were working to repel Ukrainian drone attacks. So in a way, it could be seen as an admission that the thing that caused the plane to crash happened in Russian airspace. Also, there's been this flurry of activity.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Putin not only speaking on the phone to Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijan president, but he also spoke to Tokayev, who's the president of Kazakhstan. And something very interesting appeared there. It says that the two presidents agreed that the Kazakh government commission that investigates the incident, it will involve experts from Russia, Azerbaijan, but also Brazil in decoding the flight recorders.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
And it specifically says that this work carried out on the territory of Kazakhstan will be objective and transparent. which means that the Russian side is doing everything to show that it is cooperating, that it is helping, that it is doing this in goodwill. And possibly what we can read in this is that if they're guilty of something, this must have been done by accident.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
I mean, at first, the Kremlin Putin spokesman, Mitya Peskov, declined any comment and said, yes, we're going to wait, we have to wait for the investigation to come up with clear conclusions. And then suddenly yesterday, the head of Russian State Aviation Agency, Rossoviatik, comes up and gives all these details, saying that there was dense fog, but also Russian air defenses were firing.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
The same thing that Putin repeated today in the Kremlin statement that was published on the Kremlin website. So there have been more and more details emerging. So, yes, I think we could expect that more is to come, depending on what the reaction in Azerbaijan would be. And there have been calls by MPs, by parliamentarians there for Russia to apologize officially.
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Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
Probably this is Moscow's answer now, this Putin statement.