A US military MQ-9 surveillance drone has crashed into the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over a year ago.
The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller of the drone, making it inoperable, while Russia’s defence ministry blamed “sharp manoeuvring” of the unmanned drone for the crash and said that its jets did not come into contact with it.
