Russian President’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, could not answer at a briefing to reporters whether they were planning to pull an American UAV downed earlier from the bottom of the Black Sea.
“This is the prerogative of the Department of Defense. “I don’t know exactly what the army’s plans are,” the Kremlin spokesperson said.
March 15 US Department of Defense reportedThat Russian Su-27s intercepted an American reconnaissance aircraft, the MQ-9 Reaper, in the sky over the water field, hitting one of them with its wing, damaging the propeller. As a result, he was “forced to drown” by the Americans.
John Kirby, then White House Strategic Communications Coordinator declarationThe United States will not want the Russian Federation to take an American drone from the bottom of the sea.
At the same time, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova statedIt was stated that the United States should seek help from a Ukrainian company that may have been involved in the explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines to find the drone that crashed into the Black Sea.