The Smolensk air disaster left two countries in a bitter war of words over who was to blame after 96 people died on the ...

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first admission of responsibility for the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that his country’s air defences were responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing 38.

Azerbaijani authorities had said the jet, en route from Baku to the Chechen capital Grozny, on December 25, 2024, was mistakenly hit by Russian air defence fire. The pilots then attempted an emergency ...

TUNOSHNA, Russia,None — A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed just after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was ...

The Russian leader said there were "several causes" of the "tragedy," and the first was a Ukrainian drone in the sky.

Russia’s air defense systems accidentally shot down their own Su-30SM fighter jet over annexed Crimea while attempting to ...

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia's air defense was to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first public admission of ...

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Failure to de-ice a Russian passenger plane before takeoff was the most likely cause of a crash in Siberia that killed 31 people, federal investigators said on Wednesday. The UTair ...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first public admission of ...