Azerbaijani President’s remarks on Embraer 190 passenger plane crash in Ukrainian media spotlight

The authoritative Ukrainian media outlets, including "Ukrinform", "RBK-Ukraine", "UNIAN", "Interfax-Ukraine", "Korrespondent", "Yevropeyskaya Pravda," published articles highlighting President Ilham Aliyev’s remarks made during the meeting with the families of the crew members who lost their lives and the surviving flight attendants from the crash of an Embraer 190 passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC on the Baku-Grozny route.

The news portals quoted the Azerbaijani President as saying: “I can say with full certainty that the blame for the deaths of Azerbaijani citizens in this disaster lies with representatives of the Russian Federation. And we demand justice, we demand punishment of the guilty, we demand full transparency and human behavior.

The black boxes are being decoded now, and I am sure that we will find out preliminary results in the near future and everything will fall into place.

The cover-up of this incident by Russian state agencies and the focus on absurd theories causes surprise, regret, and rightful indignation. Innocent people died.”