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Putin apologises to Azerbaijan's Aliyev over 'tragic incident' with plane in Russian airspace (www.reuters.com)

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Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's president for a "tragic incident" which happened in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed after air defences were used against Ukrainian drones.

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[–] Plaidboy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Actually they haven't admitted to shooting it down. It was more like:

"Sorry your plane crashed in Russian airspace."

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 7 months ago

"Sorry your plane had an, unfortunate accident. Let's be more careful from now or it would be a shame if you had any more, accidents."

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That's way more on-brand for Putin

[–] randombullet@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Thing is, it didn't even crash in Russian airspace. It crashed over in Kazakhstan. It has a "~~malfunction~~" "unplanned traumatic experience" over Russian airspace.