US and Russia drone dispute

Peskov expressed bewilderment in connection with statements from the United States about the emergency with the drone Moscow. March 15th. INTERFAX.RU - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov expressed bewilderment in connection with statements from Washington that Russian fighters acted unenvironmentally in relation to an American drone over the Black Sea, and advised the American side "not to fly where it is not necessary." "Why is it not environmentally friendly? Maybe, no one should have been flying there, then everything would be environmentally friendly," Peskov told the author of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program Pavel Zarubin (Russia-1, VGTRK), responding to American accusations of "non-environmental" US drone crash. The United States said, in particular, that Russian aircraft "unreasonably dumped fuel" on the drone, which polluted the sea. The emergency with the American drone was also commented on by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Speaking about how he assesses what happened from the point of view of global security, Lavrov said on the air of the Rossiya-24 TV channel (All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company): "Any incidents that provoke a clash between two great powers, two largest nuclear powers in the world, always give very serious risks. They (USA - IF) cannot fail to understand this." The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that if we take into account the logic of Washington, according to which they will continue to "fly where they please in accordance with international law," then "the space around the United States has the same status as the space over the Black Sea." "But they completely ignore the fact that after the start of the NMD, our military declared the relevant areas of the Black Sea, adjacent to the coast in certain places, as areas that have a limited status for use by any aircraft," the minister continued. "And such a defiant disregard for this objective fact, of course, suggests that the American side is constantly trying to look for some kind of provocation to escalate its confrontational approaches. This is bad, because they constantly declared that they are a responsible power, are interested in strategic stability,” Secretary of State Blinken said during the meeting in India, “but words do not match deeds,” Lavrov stressed. American drone incident over the Black Sea On Tuesday, the US European Command reported that, according to it, an American MQ-9 Reaper drone fell into the Black Sea after it was hit by a Russian Su-27 fighter. The Russian military, in turn, said that Russian fighters did not use weapons against the American drone over the Black Sea, it fell as a result of sharp maneuvering. "As a result of abrupt maneuvering around 09:30 Moscow time, the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into an uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface," the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. "The Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, they did not come into contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to their base airfield," the statement said. According to the ministry, the drone flight "was carried out with transponders turned off, violating the boundaries of the area of ​​the temporary regime for the use of airspace, established for the purpose of conducting a special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace." On Wednesday, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said that the Russian Federation would make attempts to find the wreckage of the American MQ-9 drone in the Black Sea. In turn, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, answering the question whether Russia has the opportunity to find these fragments and study them, said: "It seems to me that there are such technical possibilities."

On March 15th, Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary of the President of Russia, expressed bewilderment about the US accusations that Russian fighters acted unenvironmentally in relation to an American drone over the Black Sea. Peskov advised the American side not to fly where it is not necessary and questioned why the situation is being labeled as "non-environmental." The United States claimed that Russian aircraft unreasonably dumped fuel on the drone, which polluted the sea. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that any incidents that provoke a clash between the two great powers always give very serious risks and that the American side is constantly trying to look for some kind of provocation to escalate its confrontational approaches. The Russian military denied using weapons against the drone, stating that it fell as a result of sharp maneuvering. The Russian Federation announced that they would try to find the wreckage of the American MQ-9 drone in the Black Sea.