Ukraine to share intelligence on Azerbaijan Airlines crash with partners

Ukraine to share intelligence on Azerbaijan Airlines crash with partners

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Ukraine's President discussed the downing of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane with Aliyev and instructed him to pass on the intelligence to his partners. According to the Ukrainian side, the plane was shot down by a Russian air defense missile.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy  has ordered to transfer Ukrainian intelligence data on the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane. Zelensky said this in his evening address, UNN reports

Zelenskyy called on the world to put pressure on Russia to stop the lies about the plane crash. "The same lie as it was about MH-17, about the Boeing downed over Donetsk region," the President said. 

As the head of state emphasized, there must be responsibility - the responsibility of those who struck the plane and who allowed all this to happen in Russia: that the plane became a target.

"Today I heard an intelligence report on what happened and the data we have. I have instructed to pass on all the facts to our partners," Zelensky said.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev to discuss the downing of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane. According to Zelenskyy, there is evidence that the crash of flight J2-8243 was caused by a Russian air defense missile.