President Volodymyr Zelenskyy directed Ukraine's Defence Intelligence (DIU) to share information about the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash with its partners and called for putting pressure on Russia to stop lying about this.

The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane is horrific. We express our condolences to Azerbaijan,” the statement read. Sybiha noted that immediately after the plane’s crash, Russian media began spreading false information about the causes of the disaster.

Putin “offered his apologies” for the crash in a phone call to his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, the Kremlin said in a statement. Putin initiated the phone call, according to the statement, and told Aliyev “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised on Saturday over the crash of an Azerbaijani Airlines plane, though he stopped short of accepting that it might

Ukraine’s stockpiles of US-supplied long-range Atacms missiles are running low, according to senior US officials. Outgoing US president Joe Biden gave Kyiv permission to launch the Atacms – which have a range of up to 300 kilometres – into Russian territory a month ago. At that point, Ukraine had an estimated 50 left in its arsenal.

U.S. officials say Russia could be behind a passenger plane crash in Kazakhstan that left dozens dead Wednesday.

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Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a Ukrainian drone attack in its republic of Chechnya.

Putin’s apology came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Putin's apology came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.

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