Azerbaijan President Demands Russia Take Accountability for Plane Crash

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has demanded Moscow to take accountability and apologize for the fatal crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet last week.

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00:00Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has blamed Russia for the fatal crash of an

00:05Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet last week. Speaking to the country's state

00:09media, Aliyev called on Moscow to take accountability and apologize.

00:30Aliyev also accused Moscow of initially trying to cover up the cause of the

00:37crash. Azerbaijani officials have suggested that the aircraft was hit by a

00:41Russian air defense system while it was traveling to Grozny in southern Russia.

00:45Now that area has been targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes in recent weeks.

00:50Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly apologized to Aliyev in a

00:54phone call but he did not accept blame for the incident.

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