UN Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said António Guterres urged Russia and the United States to engage in dialogue and avoid escalating tensions. His words are conveyed about the incident with an American drone over the Black Sea. TASS.
Dujarric revealed that he had no knowledge of what exactly happened. He stressed that the response of the UN Secretary-General would be a call for dialogue and prevention of escalation.
The UN representative declined to comment on the prospects for further development, including the parties’ attempts to lift drones from the bottom of the Black Sea.
Earlier, the US Armed Forces reported that Russian Su-27s intercepted an American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance aircraft in the sky over the water area, hitting one of them with its wing, damaging its propeller. As a result, he was “forced to drown” by the Americans. at the Pentagon stressedthat the drone is not armed and is on a reconnaissance mission.
Ned Price, then spokesman for the US State Department. allowedThat Russia’s actions in the incident with the American MQ-9 reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea were most likely not intentional.