Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is pressuring Vladimir Putin to acknowledge Russia's responsibility for the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash. He accuses Russian representatives of attempting to "cover up the incident,

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday demanded that Russia admit it fired at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet before it crashed last week, accusing Moscow of initially trying to cover up the cause of the deadly accident.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has demanded a full admission of responsibility from Russia for causing the recent Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan and has called for those responsible to be punished.