{"id":55493,"date":"2025-10-09T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55493"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:52:50","slug":"putin-says-russian-air-defenses-responsible-for-azerbaijani-jets-crash-last-year-killing-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/putin-says-russian-air-defenses-responsible-for-azerbaijani-jets-crash-last-year-killing-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Says Russian Air Defenses Responsible for Azerbaijani Jet&#8217;s Crash Last Year, Killing 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Russia\u2019s air defenses were responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijani airliner in December that killed 38 people in his first admission of blame for the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Putin made the statement at a meeting with Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliev in Tajikistan\u2019s capital of Dushanbe, where both are attending a summit of the former Soviet nations, The AP news reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed on Dec. 25, 2024, while on a flight from Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani authorities said the jet was accidentally hit by fire from Russian air defenses, then tried to land in western Kazakhstan when it crashed, killing 38 of 67 people aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Putin has apologized to Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev for what he called a \u201ctragic incident\u201d but stopped short of acknowledging responsibility. Aliyev, meanwhile, criticized Moscow for trying to \u201chush up\u201d the incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Russia\u2019s air defenses were responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijani airliner in December that killed 38 people in his first admission of blame for the crash. Putin made the statement at a meeting with Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliev in Tajikistan\u2019s capital of Dushanbe, where both are attending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55495,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55493\/revisions\/55495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}