Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan killing 38 people had been damaged due to shooting from the ground in Russia, Azerbaijan state television reported.

Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has alleged that the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, claiming 38 lives, was shot at by Russia. He further accused Russia of hiding the cause of the plane crash. "The facts are that the Azerbaijani civilian plane was damaged from the outside over Russian territory,

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed disappointment over efforts by some circles in Russia to conceal the truth surrounding the crash. He accused them of spreading false narratives about the cause of the incident,