Baghdad / Obelisk: US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Russia may not have deliberately shot down the US drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday.
He added: The most reasonable explanation at the moment is that these actions were most likely unintentional, and may have been a result of the lack of professionalism of one of the Russian pilots, but this does not matter in the end, what matters is what happened, as the Russian plane forced us to shoot down the march.
And the European Command of the American forces earlier issued a statement claiming that a Russian Su-27 plane collided over the Black Sea with an American MQ-9 drone that fell as a result in international waters, and that President Joe Badin was briefed on the incident.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the crash of an American drone that was heading towards Crimean airspace in the Black Sea, and that two Russian fighters took off to intercept it and did not shoot it down.
It indicated that the drone did not operate its identification devices in violation of the no-fly zone declared by the Russian Ministry of Defense over the Black Sea, and all users of international airspace were informed of this in accordance with international standards.
As a result of a sharp maneuver at around 9:30 Moscow time, the MQ-9 lost altitude and crashed into the water, the ministry said.
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