The United States has information that Russia may have been responsible for the downing of the plane from Azerbaijan on December 25, resulting in the death of 38 people.
This was said by the spokesman of the White House, John Kirby, who offered the authorities support in the investigation. The plane is believed to have been hit by Russian air defense systems as it attempted to land in Chechnya, before changing course across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, where it crashed.
The Kremlin has refused to comment but the head of the Civil Aviation Agency said the situation in Chechnya was very complicated due to drone attacks from Ukraine.
American official Kirby claims that the evidence that the United States had seen went beyond the photos of the damaged plane that have circulated in the media. Aviation experts and others in Azerbaijan believe that the aircraft's GPS systems were jammed and then damaged by a sharp object as a result of blasts from the Russian air defense system.
Azerbaijan has not directly accused Moscow, but the country's transport minister said the plane had been subject to foreign interference and had been damaged externally and internally as it attempted to land.
It is said that all the survivors, without exception, heard 3 explosions when the plane was over Grozny. (A2 Televizion)
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