Moscow denies downing the surveillance aircraft despite video showing the fighter jets spraying it with fuel.
| The United States on Thursday released a de-classified video showing Russia’s intercept of a US military surveillance drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago, images that the White House said exposed how Moscow was lying about what happened.on Tuesday was the first direct US-Russian incident since the Ukraine war began, worsening already tense relations between Washington and Moscow as both countries publicly traded blame.
The Pentagon said the video, which is about 40 seconds long, was edited for length by the US military but shows events in a sequential order.A map provided by US military showed the intercept first occurring between 40 and 50 nautical miles off Crimea, in international airspace. The collision took pace about 10 miles further and the drone eventually crashed 75 to 85 nautical miles from land, according to the US military.
The incident over international waters was a reminder of the risk of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, which Moscow invaded more than a year ago and which Western allies have supported with intelligence and weapons. “We assess it’s very unlikely that they would be able to recover anything useful,” General Ryder told reporters, citing the depth of water and unspecified mitigation measures to guard against theft of any sensitive material on the drone.
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