Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said during a briefing that US authorities could not confirm reports in Russian media that the wreckage of an MQ-9 drone had been removed from the bottom of the Black Sea. It has been reported TASS.
“We’ve seen reports in the media that they may have picked up some rubble from the surface. We can’t confirm these reports,” Ryder said.
According to him, the American drone was not lifted from the bottom of the sea, according to the estimates of the USA.
Earlier, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that American drones are over the Black Sea. engaged it in no way secures the courts, and indeed all this proves Washington’s involvement in the conflict against Moscow.
On March 15, the Pentagon reported that Russian Su-27 warplanes intercepted an American MQ-9 Reaper in the skies over the Black Sea, and one of them struck it with a wing, damaging the propeller. As a result, he was “forced to drown” by the Americans.