Ilham Aliyev said Russia should apologise and pay compensation to the state and the people in the crash which killed 38 people last week. “We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia. We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,” he told Azerbaijani state television.
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