Russia is trying to find the destruction of an American UAV. And in the US they say they removed the software and there is no value to them.
The Russian army is conducting an operation to find the previously shot down American reconnaissance drone MQ-9 Reaper. Several Russian fleet ships have arrived at the approximate UAV crash site in the Black Sea, which may attempt to locate and recover the drone wreckage.
US administration officials say it would be extremely difficult for the Russians to do so, and insist that any valuable information the drone contains is destroyed.
UAV search operation
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, confirms that the Russian military is trying to recover the remains of the MQ-9 Reaper.
“I don’t know if we will get (UAVs from the sea – ed.) or not, but what we need to do… And we will definitely do it. I hope, of course, for success,” he said.
In addition, he said that the flight of the US drone over the Black Sea allegedly means that America is participating in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“Regarding the drone, the Americans keep saying that they are not participating in the conflict. This is another confirmation that they are directly involved in these events,” he said.
In turn, the Kremlin said that the decision to search for a drone was made exclusively by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“This is the prerogative of the military. If they consider it necessary for our interests and our security in the Black Sea, they will do it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a conference call.
Earlier, an audio recording appeared on the propaganda channels Telegram, discussing the increase in the destruction of the downed drone from the bottom of the Black Sea. In particular, some people claim that they were able to lift the “casing of the internal combustion engine.” Note that the authenticity of the recording has not been officially confirmed.
The American television company ABC News, citing sources in the US government, said that the Russian military probably managed to raise the MQ-9 Reaper. At the same time, the media does not provide other details of what exactly the Russians found.
“Lips are worthless”
At the same time, the spokesman of the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, did not confirm at all that the Russians were at the site of the drone crash. At the same time, he said that the United States has taken steps to make it “impossible” for Russia to receive any useful information from the wreck.
“We’re not too worried about what they might get,” Kirby said, according to CNN.
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, said the day before that the US military had removed all software from the downed MQ-9 Reaper drone. This step was taken to ensure that Russia could not get any kind of information if it managed to retrieve the wreckage of the UAV.
“We’re pretty sure that everything that’s important that’s there is worthless,” Milley said.
The general also said that the drone broke into pieces when it hit the water, and the debris sank to a depth of about one and a half kilometers, making it very difficult to raise them. At the same time, he clarified that the United States will not search for the remains of its drone, because they do not have ships in the Black Sea.
What will happen next?
The history of the collision in the Black Sea has increased the tension between the US and Russia, according to CNN. The channel notes that the United States has taken the extraordinary step of quickly declassifying and releasing the drone footage. This, according to journalists, could lead to a “verbal war” on the incident in the Black Sea.
The media recalled the US European Command’s statement that the incident “could lead to a miscalculation and unintended escalation” and John Kirby’s words that this incident was unique in terms of how “unsafe, unprofessional and reckless” Russia’s actions.
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