{"id":68586,"date":"2024-12-29T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/28\/putin-apologises-for-azerbaijan-plane-crash-without-admitting-russia-at-fault"},"modified":"2024-12-29T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T15:11:03","slug":"putin-apologises-for-azerbaijan-plane-crash-without-admitting-russia-at-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68586","title":{"rendered":"Putin apologises for Azerbaijan plane crash without admitting Russia at fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin says Russian president has spoken to Azerbaijan counterpart after crash in which 38 people died<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/dec\/28\/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-putin-zelenskyy\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vladimir Putin has apologised for a \u201ctragic incident\u201d in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed on Christmas Day, but stopped short of admitting Russia was responsible.<\/p>\n<p> The Kremlin said in an official statement that Putin had spoken to Azerbaijan\u2019s president, Ilham Aliyev, on Saturday by phone in his first comments since the crash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/25\/kazakhstan-plane-crash-aktau-azerbaijan-airlines-baku-grozny-fog-chechnya\">which killed 38 of the 67 people onboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cVladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, said he had expressed condolences to President Aliyev and called on Russia for a clearer explanation of the crash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/28\/putin-apologises-for-azerbaijan-plane-crash-without-admitting-russia-at-fault\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin says Russian president has spoken to Azerbaijan counterpart after crash in which 38 people diedRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesVladimir Putin has apologised for a \u201ctragic incident\u201d in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed on Christ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,1551,262,931,419,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-azerbaijan","category-kazakhstan","category-plane-crashes","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68586\/revisions\/68587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}