Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for a "tragic incident" which happened in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday talked and apologised to Azerbaijan counterpart Ilham Aliyev over the Kazakhstan plane crash. In a telephone conversation on Saturday, informed that Russian air defence systems were operational when an Azerbaijani Airlines aircraft attempted to land in Grozny prior to its crash,

A criminal investigation was under way into the passenger plane crash early on Wednesday in Kazakhstan, killing at least 38 people, Azerbaijan’s leader said.View on euronews