The US army claimed {that a} Russian fighter jet on Tuesday collided with a US drone over the Black Sea. The US army additional knowledgeable that the collision triggered US forces to deliver it down in worldwide waters.
The U.S. European Command stated in a press release that two Russian Su-27 fighter jets “performed an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of a U.S. MQ-9 drone that was working inside worldwide airspace over the Black Sea.
It stated one of many Russian fighters “struck the propeller of the MQ-9, inflicting U.S. forces to must deliver the MQ-9 down in worldwide waters,” including that a number of instances earlier than the collision, the Su-27s dumped gasoline on and flew in entrance of the MQ-9 in “a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional method.”
“This incident demonstrates a scarcity of competence along with being unsafe and unprofessional,” it added. The incident comes amid hovering Russian-U.S. tensions over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
(With inputs from AP)
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