Preliminary findings of an investigation into the crash of an Azerbaijan plane have indicated the disaster was the work of Russian air defences.
Russia has been accused of downing an Azerbaijan plane, in a shocking disaster that killed at least 38 people when it crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day.
It is understood as many as 29 of the 67 passengers and crew on board survived and had to be rushed to hospital. "No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft," the source said.
"It is wrong to build hypotheses before the conclusions of the investigation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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