Cancellation of flights from the Republic of Azerbaijan to 7 Russian cities
report Mehr News Agency, citing Al Jazeera, Azerbaijan Airlines announced the cancellation of its flights to seven Russian cities starting today.
On the other hand, Russian sources announced that Kazakh Air Kazakhstan has also stopped its flights to Yekaterinburg, Russia, for security reasons.
While yesterday, Euronews, citing a government source in Baku, claimed that a Russian surface-to-air missile hit a passenger plane as the reason for the downing of the company’s flight. It was the state airline of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On Thursday, Euronews, citing Azerbaijan government sources, claimed that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the downing of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane on Wednesday.
According to these sources, this missile During the aerial activity of the drone over Grozny, a shot was fired at flight number 8432 and it exploded next to the plane. Shrapnel from this missile hit the body of the plane and caused it to crash.
Government sources in Baku have further claimed that this damaged plane was not allowed to land at any airport in Russia despite the pilots’ request for an emergency landing. was not found and was ordered to fly from the Caspian Sea to Aktau in Kazakhstan.
According to the data, the plane’s GPS navigation systems were jammed throughout the flight path over the sea.
Azerbaijan Airlines flight from Chechnya region, Russian air defense forces were trying to shoot down Ukrainian drones.
