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Putin apologises to Azerbaijan's Aliyev over 'tragic incident' with plane in Russian airspace (www.reuters.com)

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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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[–] frunch 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

"Sorry your plane crashed in Russian airspace."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

"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."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] frunch 2 points 5 days ago

That's way more on-brand for Putin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

"Whoops, we shot down your plane. Whoops, we invaded your country."