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US Reaper drone forced down into Black Sea after collision with Russian fighter; Russian diplomat says Moscow does not want ‘any confrontation’

The incident between a US surveillance drone and Russian jets prompted rare telephone conversations between the two countries' defence ministers and military chiefs, a statement from the Kremlin reveals.

The United States has strongly condemned the downing

Two Russian Su-27 Flanker jets downed an unmanned US Reaper drone operating over the Black Sea - officials from both countries have conflicting accounts of the collision

A day after the U_S_ said a Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a U_S_ surveillance drone over the Black Sea, the Kremlin says relations between the U_S_ and Russia are in a “deplorable state."

Ben Wallace urges respect for international airspace as presumption grows incident was one-off blunder by Russian pilot

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host Syrian President Bashar Assad for talks in the Kremlin expected to focus on rebuilding Syria after a devastating civil war

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that its relations with the United States were in a "lamentable state" and at their lowest level, after Washington accused Russia of downing one of its reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there had been no high-level contact with Washington…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday he had complained to President Vladimir Putin about "problems" with Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, warning of an escalation in the restive Caucasus region. Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars for control of the Armenian-majority region and the latest conflict in 2020 ended…

Geneva (AFP) - The UN was scrambling Tuesday to ensure a Ukrainian grain exports deal aimed to ease the global food crisis can continue, but its fate remained unclear days before the March 18 expiry date.

Russian troops keep pushing forward in waves along the frontline in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers said on Tuesday, as President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his view that Russia's very existence as a state was at stake in the war. In the eastern Donbas region, Russia and Ukraine are locked in the…