The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said this Saturday that he has not spoken with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash in the that 38 people died and that “apparently” it is their responsibility.
Without admitting any guilt, Putin apologized this Saturday to the Azerbaijani presidentIlham Aliyev, for the “tragic incident” in Russian airspace.
“Apparently he did, but I haven’t talked to him,” Biden responded to a question about whether Putin should take responsibility for the plane crash that occurred last Wednesday in Kazakhstan.
The latest reports toThey point to the fact that the cause of the accident, in which 29 people were also injured, it could have been Russia’s air defense system.
The plane failed to complete its flight from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, and crashed in Kazakhstan.
Both the United States and Ukraine have pointed to the possible responsibility of Russia in the plane crash of the Azeri plane.
The spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, stated the day before that there are “preliminary indications” that the plane may have been “shot down” by Russian forces, while on the same day the president Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “clear visual evidence at the point of impact points to Russian responsibility for the tragedy.”
