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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Azerbaijan accuses Russia of massive cyberattack
Ramid Namazov, chairman of the Azerbaijani parliament's commission on countering hybrid threats, claims that Russia was behind the February 2025 cyberattack on the country. Source: Namazov's words at a public hearing on 2 May were quoted by Azerbaijan's state news agency APA, as reported by European Pravda Details: Namazov said that the investigation found that the 20 February cyberattack against Azerbaijani media was carried out by the APT29 group, also known as Cozy Bear, which is linked to Russian military intelligence. "The activities of APT29, which is engaged in cyber espionage, are mainly directed against government agencies, foreign diplomatic missions, as well as the sectors of politics, defence, energy, media and other critical areas," the MP listed. He said that the attackers had penetrated the networks of Azerbaijani media systems in advance. The MP claims that the cyberattack was triggered by the decision of the Azerbaijani authorities on 3 February to close the Russian House in Baku due to violations of the law, as well as a possible closure of the Azerbaijani branch of Sputnik radio. "It is because of these processes that this politically motivated incident of cyber interference has occurred," Namazov said. Background: It should be noted that the tensions in Russian-Azerbaijani relations back then coincided with the downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in December 2024 near Grozny. Azerbaijan, according to media reports, has evidence that the plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan was shot down by the Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Yahoo
Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024. The Embraer 190 aircraft was carrying 67 people but only 29 survived, making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet in 2024. A preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday said that there was damage to the plane, including on its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems, but it did not say what caused the damage, Reuters reported. The report was issued under global aviation rules to learn from incidents like these in order to prevent them in the future, rather than assigning blame for the crash. Also included were photographs showing that the port side of the tail section had numerous punctures, while other pictures showed fragments that it described as 'foreign metal objects' removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. The news agency had not received comment from Russian officials on this. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash. One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 'No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,' the source said. Russia has started its own investigation into the crash and said that actions are being taken to try to understand the circumstances around the incident. Russia's aviation watchdog's preliminary investigation indicated the pilot decided to change landing site after 'a collision with birds'. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December. 'Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' an official Kremlin statement said.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Yahoo
Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024. The Embraer 190 aircraft was carrying 67 people but only 29 survived, making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet in 2024. A preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday said that there was damage to the plane, including on its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems, but it did not say what caused the damage, Reuters reported. The report was issued under global aviation rules to learn from incidents like these in order to prevent them in the future, rather than assigning blame for the crash. Also included were photographs showing that the port side of the tail section had numerous punctures, while other pictures showed fragments that it described as 'foreign metal objects' removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. The news agency had not received comment from Russian officials on this. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash. One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 'No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,' the source said. Russia has started its own investigation into the crash and said that actions are being taken to try to understand the circumstances around the incident. Russia's aviation watchdog's preliminary investigation indicated the pilot decided to change landing site after 'a collision with birds'. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December. 'Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' an official Kremlin statement said.
The Independent
05-02-2025
- The Independent
Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia 's republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024. The Embraer 190 aircraft was carrying 67 people but only 29 survived, making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet in 2024. A preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday said that there was damage to the plane, including on its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems, but it did not say what caused the damage, Reuters reported. The report was issued under global aviation rules to learn from incidents like these in order to prevent them in the future, rather than assigning blame for the crash. Also included were photographs showing that the port side of the tail section had numerous punctures, while other pictures showed fragments that it described as 'foreign metal objects' removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. The news agency had not received comment from Russian officials on this. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash. One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 'No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,' the source said. Russia has started its own investigation into the crash and said that actions are being taken to try to understand the circumstances around the incident. Russia's aviation watchdog's preliminary investigation indicated the pilot decided to change landing site after 'a collision with birds'. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December. 'Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' an official Kremlin statement said.
Khaleej Times
04-02-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
Crashed Azerbaijani plane shot by Russian surface-to-air missile, senior official says
An Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed in December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan had suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, according to a report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday. Thirty-eight people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed on December 25, 2024 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after re-routing across the Caspian Sea from southern Russia. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said in December the plane had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia. Moscow has not confirmed this. Following the crash, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a rare apology to Aliyev for the "tragic incident" in Russian airspace, but the Kremlin did not say Russia had fired at the plane, only noting that a criminal case had been opened. The preliminary report was issued under global aviation rules designed to draw lessons to prevent future accidents, rather than assigning blame or liability. It was cautiously worded and did not say what had caused the extensive damage to the plane, including its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems. But it included photographs showing the port side of the tail section was punctured with numerous holes. Also pictured were fragments that it described as "foreign metal objects" removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. It was the first time that a Baku government source has claimed to have physical proof that Russia shot down the plane, a Brazilian-manufactured Embraer E190. No comment was immediately available from Russian officials late on Tuesday evening. Russia says it has assigned its own investigation to the most experienced experts and that actions are being taken to establish the cause and circumstances of the incident. The plane had been flying from Baku to Grozny in southern Russia, where the Kremlin said Ukrainian drones had been attacking several cities at the time. Twenty-nine people survived the crash-landing in Kazakhstan. Aliyev has hailed the pilots, who died, as national heroes. The Azerbaijani leader has said that blame lies with Russian individuals, and that Baku demands justice. The report said that at the start of the incident, the cockpit voice recorder identified the sound of two impacts in the space of 25 seconds. Two minutes later, the pilot reported to air traffic control that he thought the plane had suffered a bird strike. After a further five minutes, he said the aircraft was losing control. Several other airports were discussed as possible landing sites for the stricken plane before the crew decided to head to Aktau in Kazakhstan, which required them to fly east across the Caspian Sea. "So, we have this situation, oxygen is running out in the passenger cabin, which means an oxygen tank exploded there, I think," the pilot reported. "So there is a smell of fuel, some passengers are losing consciousness, give us permission to go at a lower altitude." The plane transmitted a distress signal while approaching Aktau. It collided with the ground there an hour and 12 minutes after the pilots first reported a problem. Azerbaijan's transport ministry, commenting on the report, said the plane had been fully airworthy but was damaged due to the impact of "external objects". It highlighted the report's finding that it was not until eight minutes after the initial impacts that Russian air traffic controllers initiated a protocol that bans aircraft from flying in areas which are being subjected to drone attacks.
