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A US MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, January 23, 2018
RUSSIA’S Defence Minister has ordered officials to prepare a “response” to US drone flights over the Black Sea, the ministry said today, in an apparent warning that Moscow may use force against reconnaissance aircraft.
The Russian Defence Ministry noted an “increased intensity” of US drones over the Black Sea, saying they “conduct intelligence and targeting for precision weapons supplied to the Ukrainian military by Western countries for strikes on Russian facilities.”
“It shows an increased involvement of the US and other Nato countries in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the Kiev regime,” the ministry said in a statement.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
