Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) will suspend flights to a number of Russian cities, according to the press service of this airline.

"Taking into account the preliminary data of the investigation into the crash of the Embraer 190 plane that took place on December 25, as well as possible risks in the field of flight safety, [Azerbaijan Airlines’] flights to [Russia’s] Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Grozny and Makhachkala [cities] are suspended as of December 28 until the final conclusion of the trial," reads the respective statement.