People stand near the wreckage of a Ukraine International Airlines plane that crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran on Wednesday. All 167 passengers and nine crew were killed when it crashed shortly after taking off on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported. Photo: AFP

 
Chinese President Xi Jinping extended condolences to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday for the crash of the Ukrainian airliner in Tehran on Wednesday.