Russia has reportedly found the downed US Reaper drone which collided with a fighter jet over the Black Sea on Tuesday.
claims it has won the race to find the downed US Reaper spy drone at the bottom of the Black Sea, reports say.De-classified footage of the intercept was released by the United States on Thursday,The White House said the clip disproves Russia’s claims the aircraft crashed after ‘sharp manoeuvring’ and denials that the jets made any contact with it.
National security spokesman John Kirby said: ‘It absolutely just decimates the Russian lie about what they said happened or what they said didn’t happen.The downing of the MQ-9 on Tuesday was the first direct US-Russian incident since the Ukraine war began, worsening already tense relations between Washington and Moscow.supports HTML5 video
Now Russia is reported to have located the drone nearly 3,000ft underwater in the Black Sea near the port of Sevastopol. A source close to the Russian defence ministry told ForPost, a publication in annexed Crimea: ‘An underwater robot has descended to the seabed and detected the MQ-9 Reaper at a depth of about 850-900 metres.The report said that Russian naval forces are ‘on duty in the area where the US military reconnaissance vehicle fell’.
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