Image source, EPA Image caption, Reaper drones are full-size airplane created for reconnaissance and monitoring By James Landale in Kyiv and Laura Gozzi in London BBC News The UnitedStates hasactually implicated Russia of negligent behaviour after an American drone crashed into the Black Sea following an encounter with Russian fighter jets. Before the crash, Russian jets are stated to have disposed fuel into the course of the drone, which the UnitedStates states was in worldwide airspace. The harmed MQ-9 Reaper drone was brought down by the UnitedStates after it endedupbeing “unflyable”, the Pentagon stated. Russia has rejected its 2 Su-27 fighter jets made any contact. The secret concern is whether the encounter was simply an effort by Russia to interrupt the UnitedStates drone and its work – or whether it was a intentional effort to bring it down. UnitedStates military authorities stated the occurrence occurred at about 07: 03 Central European Time (06: 03 GMT) on Tuesday and the conflict lasted around 30-40 minutes. Several times priorto the accident, the fighter jets disposed fuel on the drone in a “reckless, ecologically unsound and lessthanprofessional way”, it stated in a declaration. Pentagon spokesperson Brig Gen Pat Ryder informed pressreporters the drone was “unflyable and unmanageable so we brought it down”, including that the crash likewise likely harmed the Russian airplane. He stated the jets were able to land following the occurrence. Media caption, Watch: Pentagon calls Russia’s relocation ‘unsafe, lessthanprofessional’ Reaper drones are monitoring airplane with
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