drone over the Black Sea, causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aircraft in international waters. military said a Russian warplane struck the propeller of a U.S. Air Forces Europe and Air Forces Africa, said the MQ-9 aircraft was “conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9.” He added that “in fact, this unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash.”Īnatoly Antonov, center, Russian ambassador to the United States, arrives for a meeting with Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Karen Donfried at the U.S. “This incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional,” it added. European Command said in a statement from Stuttgart, Germany. Prior to that, the Su-27s dumped fuel on the MQ-9 and flew in front of it several times in “a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner,” the U.S. forces to bring it down in international waters. It said one of the Russian fighters struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. European Command said two Russian Su-27 fighter jets intercepted the drone while it was operating within international airspace. ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, has made similar representations in Moscow. summoned the Russian ambassador to lodge a protest and the U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price called it a “brazen violation of international law.” He said the U.S. State Department officials would be speaking directly with their Russian counterparts and “expressing our concerns over this unsafe and unprofessional intercept.” President Joe Biden was briefed on the incident by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, according to White House national security spokesman John Kirby.
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