Moscow will try to retrieve US drone wreckage; Russian and US defence ministers and military chiefs hold rare phone call to discuss drone crash
Moscow said Wednesday it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea,
in a confrontation Washington blamed on two Russian fighter jets. US officials said the debris could be inchiefs. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on Wednesday that operating drone flights near Crimea was provocative and could lead to an escalation, the Russian Defence Ministry said. Russia, the statement said, “had no interest in such a development but will in future react in due proportion”.
Austin declined to offer any details on the call, including whether he criticised the Russian intercept. But he reiterated at a news conference that the US intended to continue flying where international law allowed and demanded Russian military aircraft operate in a safe and professional manner.Blinken declined to speak to the motive or intent behind the incident, saying he would let the investigation proceed and that the US is “in close coordination” with allies and partners on the matter.
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