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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – Two USA the official said on Friday that on Tuesday Russia of a fighter plane USA resumed the flights of surveillance drones over the Black Sea region after the surveillance apparatus was shot down.

An RQ-4 Global Hawk flew a mission to the region on Friday, officials said, the first such unmanned flight since Tuesday’s incident. Pentagon officials have repeatedly stressed this week that the incident will not prevent Washington from carrying out such missions.

It’s Tuesday again USAshooting down the MQ-9 drone Ukraine the first direct US-Russia incident and worsened already strained relations between Washington and Moscow, as both countries openly accepted the blame.

Russia The unmanned US of two Su-24 fighters plane denied accusations that he was driving around recklessly and instead blamed the drone’s “sharp maneuvering” for the crash.

However, the Pentagon on Thursday released footage showing a Russian Su-27 fighter jet getting too close to the drone and dumping fuel. video published.

It also follows another close Russian maneuver in which the Pentagon collided a Russian plane with a drone video indicated the loss of the tape.

Videoends with footage of the drone’s damaged propeller, which the Pentagon says the collision disabled the plane and caused it to crash into deep water.

The incident in international waters reminded of the risk of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, which Moscow occupied more than a year ago and is backed by intelligence and weapons from its Western allies.

Reporting by Phil Stewart in Washington Editing by Matthew Lewis

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2023-03-18 08:30:30
Source – reuters

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