“Iran agrees to pay compensation, but it will take a long time. Although many of the passengers of this plane were our compatriots, Ukrainian citizens were also present in it, ”TASS quotes him as saying.
The Boeing 737 of Ukraine International Airlines crashed on January 8, a few minutes after taking off from Tehran airport.
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that an Iranian delegation would arrive in Kiev on July 29-30 to hold consultations on the issue of compensation payments to the relatives of the victims of the Ukrainian Boeing plane crash.