Russia Aims To Recover Downed U.S. Drone

Russian officials had plans to salvage the remains a U.S.-made military drone that crashed into Black Sea on Tuesday.

“I don’t know if we can recover them or not, but we will certainly have to do that, and we will deal with it,” During Wednesday’s televised comments, Nikolai Patrushev – secretary of Russia’s Security Council – spoke. “I certainly hope for success,” He added that, according to The Associated Press.

Sergei Naryshkin (head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service) told a reporter he believes Moscow has all the resources necessary for such an operation. “The way I see it, there are such technical capabilities,” He stated, “Per!” Russian state-run media.

The U.S. military has a statement One of the two Russian Su-27 aircraft that was conducting an intercept hit a propeller on a MQ-9 surveillance aircraft. The aircraft was performing routine operations in international aviation space, prompting U.S forces to bring it down in international waters. Ned Price, spokesperson for the State Department According to the witnesses, the incident was a “brazen violation of international law.”

Russia’s defense ministry asserts that the drone flew towards the Russian border without its transponders on and in violation of the airspace restrictions. “special military operation” According to TASS, the state-run news agency.

The defense ministry denied Russia’s fighter planes came in contact with this drone, and claimed that the U.S. aircraft crashed into the water due to the U.S. “uncontrollable maneuvering.”

John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, told CNN Wednesday that the United States may not be able to recover the drone’s remains.

After a Russian fighter plane took down an American Air Force drone, the U.S. demanded answers.

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“I’m not sure that we’re going to be able to recover it. Where it fell into the Black Sea — very, very deep water,” Kirby said. “We’re still assessing whether there can be any recovery effort. There may not be.”

Kirby stated that the U.S. had taken steps to prevent Kirby from going into too much detail. “minimize any intelligence value that might come from somebody else getting their hands on that drone.”

The drone is a potential threat to increase tension in an already stressful situation. The U.S., along with its Western allies, provide military support for Ukraine in its efforts against a full-scale Russian invasion.

“The incident with the American MQ-9 Reaper UAV — provoked by Russia over the Black Sea — is [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s way of signaling his readiness to expand the conflict to involve other parties,” Oleksiy Danilov (Chief of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council) said, per Fox News. “The purpose of this all-in tactic is to always be raising the stakes.”

While Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. According to some reports, he said that he told Washington Russia would “no longer allow anybody to violate our waters,” According to the Defense Department, the U.S. military won’t make any concessions.

“Make no mistake, the United States will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows,” Lloyd Austin, Defense Secretary, spoke Wednesday at a meeting the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. CNN. “And it is incumbent upon Russia to operate as military aircraft in a safe and professional manner.”

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