Russian minister responds after suspicious holes in crashed plane: “Our troops are not ordered to attack civilian targets”

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan yesterday may have been accidentally downed by a Russian air defense system. Damage to the tail of the aircraft appears to be consistent with the impact of anti-aircraft artillery. The Russians may have been on edge due to a Ukrainian drone attack. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a statement this morning that his country does not attack civilian targets.

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