White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said the United States would not abide by the Russian Federation’s restrictions on airspace in the Black Sea region as part of a special military operation. It has been reported TASS.
“They can announce what they want, they can say what they want. “We will continue to fly and operate in accordance with international law,” Kirby said.
He stressed that US planes fly “legally in international space”.
Earlier it became known that there are specialists from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. to create On March 14, the day of the incident, an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) MQ-9 Reaper crashed in the Black Sea.
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.