Ned Price, Head of the Press Service of the US Department of State, said that Anatoly Antonov, the Russian Ambassador to the US, was summoned to the State Department after an American drone was stopped in the Black Sea. Russian military fighter. It has been reported TASS.
“We engage directly with the Russian side at a high level to express our complete rejection of this unprofessional, unsafe intervention that led to the downing of an American drone. “We are calling the Russian ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where we will send the appropriate signal,” he said.
According to Price, US Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy also sent a signal to the Russian side regarding the incident.
It was previously reported that the drone MQ-9 Reaper. faced With a Russian Su-27 fighter jet over the Black Sea.
The MQ-9 Reaper is used by the armed forces of the United States and NATO allies and is regularly observed over the Black Sea skies. The Russian military claims that these drones conduct reconnaissance at Russian military installations in Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet – the UAV flight path usually crosses the sea south of Crimea and the Russian maritime border.