MOSCOW: Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.
In a documentary titled Putin available on Russian social media, Putin told reporter Andrey Kondrashov he received a call from security officers responsible for the Sochi Olympics on Feb 7, 2014, shortly before the opening ceremony was to start.
“I was told: a plane en route from Ukraine to Istanbul was seized, captors demand landing in Sochi,” Putin said in the …read more
Source: theSun
