Kazakhstan Rejects Claims of Plane Attack as Baseless

Earlier OSINT’s analyst Oliver Alexander raised these assumptions.

The claims of a plane being shot down near Aktau have no basis said Maulen Ashimbayev, Speaker of Kazakhstan’s Senate, speaking to journalists in Astana, according to TASS.

Ashimbayev stated that certain individuals are using such allegations for personal gain. He called the spread of such statements unethical and incorrect.

Kanat Bozumbayev, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister, stressed it is too early to draw conclusions about the damage to the plane. He noted that appropriate expert assessments would take place as part of the ongoing criminal investigation.

«I am not in a position to make hasty comments,» he remarked on video footage showing damage to the plane’s tail section.

Earlier, social media and media outlets discussed theories suggesting that missile fire could have caused the holes in the plane’s fuselage. OSINT analyst Oliver Alexander put forward this hypothesis, claiming that the plane fragments show holes that look like entry points on one side of the stabiliser and exit points on the other. He added that if the plane had collided with a bird or debris, the damage would have been different, with more dents around the holes.