{"id":68616,"date":"2024-12-30T00:28:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/29\/azerbaijan-president-blames-russia-for-shooting-down-plane-on-christmas-day"},"modified":"2024-12-30T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:28:20","slug":"azerbaijan-president-blames-russia-for-shooting-down-plane-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68616","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan president blames Russia for shooting down plane on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Aliyev says Moscow must \u2018admit its guilt\u2019 after downing plane, albeit unintentionally, with loss of 38 lives<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s president Ilham Aliyev said the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticised Moscow for trying to \u201chush up\u201d the issue for days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia \u2026 we are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,\u201d he told Azerbaijani state television.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/29\/azerbaijan-president-blames-russia-for-shooting-down-plane-on-christmas-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Aliyev says Moscow must \u2018admit its guilt\u2019 after downing plane, albeit unintentionally, with loss of 38 livesAzerbaijan\u2019s president Ilham Aliyev said the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[1551,262,419,61,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-kazakhstan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68616","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68616\/revisions\/68617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}