Moscow: Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for a “tragic incident” which came about in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airways passenger airplane that crashed on Wednesday.

Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fireplace close to town of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia the place Ukrainian drones have been reported to be attacking a number of towns. A minimum of 38 other folks have been killed whilst 29 survived.

“(President) Vladimir Putin apologized for the tragic incident that came about in Russian airspace and as soon as once more expressed his deep and honest condolences to the households of the sufferers and needed a fast restoration to the injured,” the Kremlin mentioned in a observation.

“It used to be famous within the dialog that the Azerbaijani passenger airplane, which used to be touring in keeping with its time table, again and again attempted to land at Grozny airport. At the moment, Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz have been being attacked by means of Ukrainian unmanned aerial cars, and Russian air protection techniques repelled those assaults,” the Kremlin mentioned.