Azerbaijan has evidence that AZAL plane was shot down by Russian missile - Reuters

This was reported by Reuters, citing a source in the Azerbaijani government, Ukrinform reports.

"The Azerbaijani side has a fragment of the Pantsir-S missile, which was removed from the plane and identified with the help of international expertise," the agency's unnamed interlocutor said.

38 of the 67 people on board the plane died.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, stated that the plane was shot down by the Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system.

The White House said it has evidence that an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane was shot down by a Russian air defense system.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane lost control due to electronic warfare and was fired upon from the ground in the territory of the Russian Federation near Grozny.

On February 4, the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan published a report with preliminary results of the investigation into the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane near the city of Aktau in late December.

Photo: Ministry of Emergencies of Kazakhstan