{"id":299158,"date":"2025-10-10T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/russia-admits-it-downed-azerbaijan-airlines-embraer-e190-last-christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:30:16","slug":"russia-admits-it-downed-azerbaijan-airlines-embraer-e190-last-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299158","title":{"rendered":"Russia Admits It Downed Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190 Last Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin elected to admit that Russian air defenses ultimately caused the December 25, 2024, downing of an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257366\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/azerbaijan-airlines\/\"  >Azerbaijan Airlines<\/a><\/span> Embraer 190, killing 38 different people. He told Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe that missiles fired at a Ukrainian drone detonated near the aircraft as it approached Grozny. Putin pledged both his government&#8217;s accountability in the situation and financial compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13103,3320,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-azerbaijan-airlines","category-embraer-e190","category-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299210,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299158\/revisions\/299210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}