American The Defense Department says it has indications that Russian forces are trying to recover the wreckage of a US MQ-9 Reaper drone that crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday.

“We have indications that Russia is likely making efforts to retrieve the MQ-9 wreckage… However, we consider it highly unlikely that they will be able to recover anything useful,” Air Force Brigadier General Pat Ryder, Pentagon spokesman, said today.

According to Reuters, citing information from an unnamed American official, Russian ships rushed to the crash site of the American MQ-9 Reaper, but it is not yet clear whether they managed to pick up the wreckage of the unmanned ship. airplane.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}