Black Sea Drone: More Crashes ‘Inevitable’ As Long As Russia Controls Crimea, Ukraine Minister Says

 

One day after a Russian fighter jet clipped the propeller of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea, forcing it to crash, Ukrainian officials warned that additional incidents in international airspace over the Black Sea will be "inevitable" as long as Russia controls Crimea. However, U.S. officials pledge to keep flying surveillance drones as tensions between Moscow and Washington worsen.

cresting to the BBC Wednesday morning, Ukrainian Unfamiliar Clergyman Dmytro Kuleba cautioned the Dark Ocean "won't be a protected spot" as long as Russia controls the Crimean landmass, which it unlawfully added in 2014, eight years before Moscow sent off its attack of Ukraine.

The incident, which occurred early on Tuesday morning, was branded "reckless," "dangerous," and a demonstration of Russia's "lack of competence" by the U.S. European Command. It claimed that two Russian jets also dumped fuel on the drone and flew directly in front of it. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed that the crash was caused by the drone's "sharp maneuvering" and that its jets did not collide with it.

After Russian forces were forced to retreat from areas in eastern and southern Ukraine last fall, officials in Ukraine have also warned that Russia is planning a spring offensive. Russian powers have since gone after not just essential port urban communities on the Dark Ocean and in eastern Ukraine, yet Ukraine's capital Kyiv, striking local locations and key framework. Meanwhile, officials from the United States have accused Russian forces of human rights violations. VP Kamala Harris guaranteed in a Security Board meeting last month that Russian powers' killing of regular citizens in the Dark Ocean city of Mariupol, as well as the removal of kids and "frightful demonstrations" on regular folks, made up a "far and wide and foundational" assault on regular people.