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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    15 hours ago

    Doesn’t offer anything more than that, though.

    “Sorry we shot down an innocent plane, we were busy fighting a war we never should have started and refuse to end”

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

      “Sorry your plane crashed in Russian airspace.”

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        “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.”

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        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.