Russia will try to retrieve the wreckage of the US MQ-9 Reaper drone that crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday, March 14, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev announced.
Speaking on Russian state television Rossiya 1 on Wednesday, the official admitted that he did not know if Russia could reach the drone crash site, but stressed that it was important in the work. Strive to find and study the wreckage.
“The United States continues to say that it is not involved in hostilities in Ukraine, but the latest drone incident is another indication that the United States is directly involved in the drone strike,” Patrushev said. “In the ongoing military conflict.”
The secretary-general’s statement came after Washington’s European Command (EUCOM) reported that its MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed in the Black Sea on Tuesday morning due to unsafe and unmanned activity. Professional of two Russian Su-27 fighter jets.
The Pentagon has insisted that a Russian interceptor strike the wing of a drone while it was conducting reconnaissance missions in international airspace.
