Russian officials shared plans to salvage the remains of a U.S. military drone that crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday.
“I don’t know if we can recover them or not, but we will certainly have to do that, and we will deal with it,” Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s Security Council, said during televised remarks Wednesday. “I certainly hope for success,” he added, according to the Associated Press.
Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, told a reporter that he believes Moscow has the resources for such an operation. “The way I see it, there are such technical capabilities,” he said, per Russian state-run media.
The U.S. military says one of two Russian Su-27 aircraft conducting an intercept struck a propeller of a MQ-9 surveillance
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