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

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 ...

Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia's involvement in the 2024 crash of an Azerbaijani passenger plane, labelling it a tragedy. The December 25 incident in Kazakhstan resulted in 38 fatalities among the 67 ...

Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of sowing “chaos” with fresh strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid, while escalating drone attacks forced Kyiv to begin new evacuations of children from frontline villages ...

On Thursday, however, he acknowledged Russia’s role more explicitly, saying Russian air defence missiles had detonated several metres from the plane after Ukrainian drones ... told the Russian ...