An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed on Christmas, killing dozens of people, was shot down by Russian antiaircraft fire, according to an investigation.
An investigation by Azerbaijan indicated that the plane was “hit by a Russian antiaircraft missile, or shrapnel from it,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Separate aviation experts said that there was visible evidence that the plane had been hit by a munition.
The flight from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was headed for Grozny, Russia when it “suddenly diverted course when flying over a part of Russia where the military had been shooting down Ukrainian drones,” the report said. “The plane went down in western Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea city of Aktau.”
Sources familiar with the investigation told The Journal that Russia refused to allow the plane to land on its soil and that Russia intentionally jammed the…
