In the crash’s aftermath, Azerbaijan has unleashed rare and stinging criticism of Russia, with the country’s president saying Moscow’s response has caused “surprise, regret and rightful indignation.”

The extraction of flight data from the Brazilian-made Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan last month was completed at a lab run by Brazil's air force, according to a statement released by the entity on Monday.

After an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed in Kazakhstan in December, killing 38 people, a video surfaced across social media in multiple languages alongside the claim it showed the moments before the tragedy.

Azerbaijan's president has confronted Putin over the devastating plane crash that killed 38 people on Christmas Day.