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.