White House strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said the United States would not want Russia to take a U.S. drone that crashed into the Black Sea. Kirby said this in an interview. CNN.
“This is our property, so we don’t want it to fall into the hands of the Russian Federation, but we’re not too worried about what they might get out of there,” he said.
Sergei Shoigu, former head of the Russian Defense Ministry stated Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said the cause of the incident with the US drone was America’s non-compliance with the flight restriction zone declared by the Russian Federation.
Prior to that, the US Armed Forces had the Russian Su-27’s caught In the sky above the water area, an American reconnaissance aircraft MQ-9 Reaper and one of them touched its wing, damaging the propeller. As a result, he was “forced to drown” by the Americans. The Pentagon said the drone was unarmed and was on a reconnaissance mission.