Russia has seen a sharp rise in aviation incidents in the fourth year of Western sanctions that cut off access to spare parts for foreign-made aircraft, an investigation by the exiled news outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe has found.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took partial responsibility Thursday for striking and downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in December 2024. Speaking alongside Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Tajikistan, Putin sought to blame Ukrainian drones that had ...

Russian air strikes pounded Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine overnight, killing several people and wounding dozens of others -- including a pregnant woman -- as Moscow continues to hit civilian infrastructure.

MOSCOW, March 23 (Reuters) - Demand for domestic air travel is rising in Russia but not nearly as strongly as fuel prices, squeezing airlines' still-brittle finances, as competition between carriers helps to rein in fares. Airport fuel prices have returned ...

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s air defense were to blame for downing an Azerbaijani jetliner in December that killed 38 people, his first public admission of responsibility for the crash in an effort to ease tensions ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Russia’s air defenses were responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijani airliner in December that killed 38 people in his first admission of blame for the crash. Putin made the ...