Russian officials are denying claims that a Russian fighter jet clipped a US drone in international airspace over the Black Sea on Tuesday morning.
An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft is parked in a hanger at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada.
Russia is now denying that the aircraft touched one another, and accusing the U.S. of unnecessarily escalating the issue. "We assume that the United States will refrain from further speculation in the media and stop flights near Russian borders,"said Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov on Wednesday. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov speaks during a discussion about the legacy of Anatoly Dobrynin at the Woodrow Wilson Institute on Nov. 18, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
He later wrote on his Telegram channel,"We consider any action with the use of U.S. weaponry as openly hostile.""Let us ask a rhetorical question: if, for example, a Russian strike drone appeared near New York or San Francisco, how would the U.S. Air Force and Navy react?" Antonov asked.
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