President Volodymyr Zelenskyy directed Ukraine's Defence Intelligence (DIU) to share details about the Azerbaijan Airways airplane crash with its companions and referred to as for placing strain on Russia to cease mendacity about this.

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Quote from Zelenskyy: "I’ve little doubt that the complete reality concerning the crash of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane could be established and that Russia won’t reach concealing something. Now there are already companions concerned, who could be trusted, to begin with, by Azerbaijan itself.

Ukraine will present all the mandatory help, and we name on each nation to assist Azerbaijan on this scenario. And we name on each nation to place strain on Russia to cease the lies about this crash – the identical lies as had been advised about MH-17, concerning the Boeing shot down over the Donetsk area.

In our dialog with President Aliyev, we acknowledged the heroism of the crew, who managed to steer the airplane onto Kazakhstan territory, saving 29 folks. However tragically, there have been many fatalities, and for all this, the accountability should be borne – the accountability of those that hit the airplane, and people in Russia who made all this attainable: that the airplane was focused.

As we speak I obtained an intelligence report on what occurred and the info we presently have. I instructed that each one info be shared with our companions."

Beforehand: On 28 December, Zelenskyy had a phone dialog with Azerbaijani chief Ilham Aliyev, throughout which they mentioned the crash of an Embraer airplane operated by Azerbaijan Airways.

Background:

• On 25 December, an Embraer plane of Azerbaijan Airways en route from Baku to Grozny crashed close to Aktau, the executive centre of Kazakhstan's Mangistau Oblast. The crash killed 38 folks.
• Azerbaijan Airways stated that the crash on 25 December was attributable to "bodily and technical exterior affect".
• Rashad Nabiyev, Minister of Digital Improvement and Transportation of Azerbaijan, stated that eyewitness accounts and holes within the fuselage of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane that crashed in Kazakhstan point out exterior affect.
• In flip, the USA noticed indicators of Russian air defence involvement within the crash of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane.
• Throughout a phone dialog with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian chief Vladimir Putin apologised for the "tragic incident" involving an Azerbaijan Airways airplane that occurred in Russian airspace.

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