The Latest Breaking News from the Black Sea

The details are disputed, but either way the result was the same: On March 14, 2023, a U.S. drone crashed into the Black Sea after an encounter with Russian aircraft.

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.

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."

Moscow has told Washington to keep well away from its air space after a US drone intercepted by Russian jets crashed into the Black Sea.

Moscow warned against “hostile” US flights on Wednesday, as tensions simmered a day after a Russian fighter jet was accused of colliding with an American drone over the Black Sea.

An incident involving a US spy drone and a Russian fighter jet is a signal that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to expand the Ukraine-Russia conflict zone, a senior Ukrainian security official said on Wednesday. The US military said on Tuesday a Russian fighter plane had clipped the propeller…

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…

Moscow will try to retrieve the remains of a US military surveillance drone brought down in the Black Sea after an encounter with Russian fighter planes, said a senior Russian security official on Wednesday. The US military said a Russian fighter jet clipped the drone's propeller. Russia denies responsibility for…

‘The Black Sea belongs to no one nation’

US and Russia give conflicting accounts of events that led a multimillion-dollar drone to crash into the Black Sea.