The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said during a briefing that the agreement between the USSR and the USA on the prevention of incidents on the high seas and in the airspace, signed in 1972, does not apply in this case. With the American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle that crashed into the Black Sea. It has been reported TASS.
“I expressed the assumption of American experts that the Russian side violated the 1972 agreement between the government of the Soviet Union and the US government on the prevention of incidents on the high seas and in the airspace,” said Zakharova.
The State Department representative noted that the agreement applies to “manned” aircraft, which are heavier and lighter than air, excluding space planes. Therefore, according to him, the agreement does not apply to unmanned aerial vehicles.
Earlier, the US Department of Defense released a video from the camera of the American reconnaissance aircraft MQ-9 Reaper, which crashed over the Black Sea, showing how a Russian warplane flew over the drone. breaks.