"Azerbaijan’s president has promised me that thorough investigation will be held within the framework of criminal proceedings and those responsible will be punished," Putin said at a meeting with senior Defense Ministry officials and chiefs of federal agencies and enterprises of the defense-industrial complex.
Putin instructed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to provide assistance to the families of the pilots, Major Yuri Ishshuk and Senior Lieutenant Roman Fedi, who died in the crash of Mi-24 helicopter in Armenia.
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