Russia has extensively used sophisticated jamming equipment to fend off drone attacks. Following Wednesday’s suspension of flights from Baku to Grozny and Makhachkala, Azerbaijan Airlines ...

Four sources quoted by Reuters said that Russian air defenses mistakenly shot down the aircraft as Moscow claims it was prevented from landing at Grozny due to a drone attack from Ukraine.

Azerbaijan’s leader on Monday accused Moscow of carrying out a “cover up” over a passenger jet crash last month that claimed 38 lives, as relations sour between the two neighbors.

Mr. Putin said that Russian air defenses had begun to repulse an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Grozny airport as the plane from Azerbaijan approached its destination, according to the statement.

He recalled a Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny Airport and the activation of the Kovyor (Carpet) plan at that time. [The Kovyor plan is a safety procedure implemented at airports when an ...

“Ukrainian attack drones at this time were making terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure in the cities of Grozny and Vladikavkaz,” Yadrov said, referring to a nearby city. Yadrov said ...

When a passenger plane with 67 people on board slammed to the ground on Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea coast early on December 25, Russian authorities and state media were quick to name possible ...

The Embraer 190 aircraft, which was made in Brazil, was en route from the Baku to Grozny in Russia when it was diverted and crashed in Kazakhstan. Brazilian investigators are currently working ...

The Russian authorities are trying to conceal the fact of a drone attack on Chechnya. This attack may be connected to the crash of a passenger aircraft in Kazakhstan, according to Agentstvo.Novosti on ...

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Russia’s aviation chief revealed on Friday that Grozny was under attack by Ukrainian drones when the plane tried to land, but the Kremlin has refrained from commenting on claims that Russian air ...

Ukrainian drones had previously attacked Grozny, the capital of the Russian ... used sophisticated jamming equipment to fend off drone attacks. Following Wednesday’s suspension of flights ...