Today, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, made a telephone conversation with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, at the initiative of the American side.
The Russian news agency Sputnik reported that the two defense ministers discussed during the call the incident of the fall of the American drone over the Black Sea. In turn, the American Al-Hurra TV channel quoted an official at the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) as saying that Austin assured his Russian counterpart that the Russian pilots acted with the American march that fell yesterday (Tuesday) over the Black Sea. "Unprofessional and inconsiderate"And that the United States will continue to fly in international airspace, in accordance with international laws. The United States announced that an MQ-9 Reaper drone had crashed "Unprofessional objection to it" by a Russian fighter over the Black Sea, and Washington summoned the Russian ambassador over the incident to express "her strong protest". While the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the American plane crashed as a result of a sharp maneuver that led to its loss of altitude and its fall, and that the two Russian fighters that flew to intercept it did not fire at it, and neither of them collided with it.
