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Pentagon says footage shows Russian Su-27 approaching the back of MQ-9 drone and beginning to release fuel as it passes.

The Pentagon has released footage of what it says is a Russian aircraft conducting an unsafe intercept of a U.S. Air Force drone in international airspace over the Black Sea

Russia-US relations in ‘lamentable’ state after drone collision as war in Ukraine continues to rage

US General Mark Milley said the MQ-9 Reaper drone sank in an area of the Black Sea where depths are up to 1,500 metres.

Kremlin has vowed to recover drone after it crashed in international waters

The US says Russia’s intercept was part of a ‘pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions’

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart about a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea after an encounter with a Russian fighter jet, as officials sought to keep the incident from further escalating tension already high over the invasion of Ukraine.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says US ‘will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows’.

Russian officials say a bid will be made to recover a US drone from the Black Sea while US authorities say no intelligence can be gained.