The Azerbaijan Airlines flight from Baku to Grozny in Russia was carrying 67 people when it crashed near Aktau early Wednesday. 25 people survived, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian forces fired more than 70 missiles and more than 100 attack drones during a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Christmas Day. He also noted that the defenders had managed to shoot down more than 50 missiles and a significant number of drones. Source: Zelenskyy on social media…
The Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, had reportedly requested an emergency landing before the incident.