Russia will seek to recover downed U.S. drone, Kremlin says
Source: Washington Post
NATIONAL SECURITY
Russia will seek to recover downed U.S. drone, Kremlin says
U.S. officials said that, while measures were taken to thwart Moscows ability to glean any intelligence from the MQ-9 Reaper, those steps are not foolproof
By Karen DeYoung and Dan Lamothe
March 15, 2023 at 1:02 p.m. EDT
Moscow said Wednesday that it will try to retrieve the wreckage of a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea after a collision with a Russian jet fighter.
I dont know if we can get them or not, Kremlin Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said of the drone fragments, but it has to be done, and well surely engage in it. I hope for success, of course.
Patrushev said that the presence of the MQ-9 Reaper drone in part of Russias self-declared Black Sea exclusion zone on Tuesday was proof that the United States military is directly participating in the Ukraine War. U.S. officials, while arming and providing intelligence for the Ukrainian war effort, have repeatedly rejected Russian charges of direct U.S. involvement.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains highly sensitive, said that, after Tuesdays collision badly disabled the unarmed drone, Air Force personnel brought it down approximately 56 nautical miles southwest of Crimeas southern tip. The peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed from Ukraine in 2014, is home to the Russian navys Black Sea Fleet and an array of other military assets. Ukrainian leaders, having vowed to retake the strategically important landmass, have carried out a handful of attacks there.
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Natalia Abbakumova in Riga, Latvia, contributed to this report.
By Karen DeYoung
Karen DeYoung is associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The Post. In more than three decades at the paper, she has served as bureau chief in Latin America and in London and as correspondent covering the White House, U.S. foreign policy and the intelligence community. Twitter https://twitter.com/karendeyoung1
By Dan Lamothe
Dan Lamothe joined The Washington Post in 2014 to cover the U.S. military. He has written about the Armed Forces for 15 years, traveling extensively, embedding with each service and covering combat in Afghanistan. His reporting about the 2021 attack on the Capitol was part of a project that earned the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Twitter https://twitter.com/danlamothe
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I dont know if we can get them or not, Kremlin Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said of the drone fragments, but it has to be done, and well surely engage in it. I hope for success, of course.
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Russia will seek to recover downed U.S. drone, Kremlin says
U.S. officials said that, while measures were taken to thwart Moscows ability to glean any intelligence from the MQ-9 Reaper,
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)That's why they downed it.
We shouldn't let them.
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)who could blame the Ukrainians for targeting the recovery ship with intelligence provided by the DoD?
Walleye
(31,081 posts)Bayard
(22,181 posts)Isn't it an act of war?
Maybe they think they can cobble it back together with duct tape and use it themselves. These things should carry a self-destruct mechanism for just such occasions.
bluestarone
(17,067 posts)Ukraine! Russia is asking for it. Russia has opened the door to 100% equip Ukraine!!
moondust
(20,016 posts)At press conference just now he said measures were taken to basically protect any secrets. ??? He also said we don't have ships there but we have allies there with ships who may try to recover the drone.
Kennah
(14,337 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)Kennah
(14,337 posts)Ukrainian, kids?
Aye aye, Captain.
I said, Ukrainian?
Aye aye, Captain.
Who lives in a scrapheap under the sea?
Moskva Cruiser
Abhorrent and yellow and sinking is she
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If nautical shitgames be something you quip
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Then missile on deck and blow up the ship
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