Moscow warned Washington on Wednesday to keep well away from its airspace, after a U.S. drone intercepted by Russian jets crashed into the Black Sea, the first known direct confrontation between the superpowers since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Washington and Moscow traded blame for the incident, which took place in international airspace near territory Russia claims to have annexed from Ukraine. Moscow called it proof that the United States was directly participating in the war; Washington called it an act of Russian recklessness.Russia said it would try to recover the drone wreckage from the sea. Washington said it might never be recovered, and steps had been taken to ensure Russia could not gain intelligence from the wreckage.
White House spokesman John Kirby said U.S. officials had told Russia's ambassador Anatoly Antonov that Moscow must be more careful: "The message was: Don't do this again." The Kremlin said there had been no high-level contacts with Washington over the incident, describing bilateral relations as "lamentable."
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an overnight address that he had met his top military brass and they unanimously advised reinforcing Bakhmut.
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