The president of Azerbaijan says the jetliners was shot down unintentionally

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, but stopped short of acknowledging that his country was responsible. The Kremlin said that air defence systems were firing near Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, where a plane was attempting to land.