Moscow, March 12: Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered to shoot down a passenger plane in 2014 after reports that it had been hijacked and was being ordered to land at Sochi, where winter Olympics were being held.
President Putin revealed this in a 2-hour documentary titled “Putin”. The leader told journalist Andrey Kondrashov that he received a phone call from security officers on Feb 7, 2014, that a hijacked plane was on its way to Sochi, just before the ceremony was about to start. The captors demanded landing at Sochi.
Putin is seeing telling the reporter that he was told a …read more
Source: India.com