Rouhani to send a message to Zelensky over downed Boeing

Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Construction Mohammad Eslami will leave for Kyiv to convey to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky a message from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Report informs citing the RIA Novosti, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said at a press conference.

"Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami will leave for Kyiv to convey to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky a message from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani regarding Ukrainian plane crash," Iranian agency IRNA quoted Mousavi.

Ukraine International Airlines plane flying to Tehran crashed shortly after leaving Tehran's airport on January 8. All 176 people aboard the plane, including 167 passengers from Iran, Ukraine, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Afghanistan, and nine crew members, were killed.

Iranian authorities announced that Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 was shot down "unintentionally" by its armed forces, and "human factor" was the cause of the tragedy.