He Collision between a Russian fighter plane and an American drone that it was operating over the Black Sea and that was shot down upon impact It has raised tension between the United States and Russia.

The government of Joe Biden has accused Russia of carrying out an “unsafe” and “unprofessional” maneuver of two Russian Army aircraft and has explained that his drone was carrying out a routine operation when it was intercepted and hit, which led US forces to shoot it down in international waters.

From the Pentagon they rule out that it was an accident and assure that the two planes would have begun to chase the American drone spitting fuel at it, a literally “harass and shoot down” maneuver. According to US Air Force Commander James B. Hecker, “These aggressive actions are dangerous and can lead to miscalculations and inadvertent escalations.”

For their part, the Russian authorities have claimed that the Russian military at no time did they use weapons nor did they come into contact with the US drone, which was flying with the transponders turned off and violating the delimited area “in accordance with international regulations” to carry out overflights in international airspace.

The Russian ambassador, Anatoly Antonov, has called the maneuvers of the US drone “provocation”. “I think this is a real provocation. This provoked us to carry out certain actions after which one could blame Russia or the Russian Army for some kind of lack of professionalism,” he said, according to the news agency. ‘TASS’.

Antonov, who has reiterated that the aircraft was flying with the transponders off, spoke these words to the press after be summoned by the US Department of State and leaving a meeting to explain what happened to the US ambassador in Moscow, Lynne Tracy.

Despite these words, He has stated that his country “is not interested in confrontation”. In recent times “contacts with colleagues from the State Department refer only to protests and negative signals towards the Russian Federation,” Antonov told the press. “This is what I told you and I also told you that the Russian side is not interested in confrontation. The Russian side is interested in pragmatic relations with the United States in the interest of the Russian and American peoples,” he added.

The ambassador noted that the US side lodged a protest “over, as they said, ‘the unprofessional actions of the Russian side’.” “The most important thing, I think, is that American planes and ships have nothing to do along the borders of the Federation,” he stressed, adding: “Can you imagine a plane, a (Russian) drone like that showing up near New York or San Francisco? Can you imagine what the reaction of the US media or the Pentagon would be to that drone.”

He has also pointed out that the US MQ-9 drone that crashed in the Black Sea is a multipurpose device. “capable of carrying 1,700 kilograms of explosives.”

The Russian Ministry of Defense has also ruled on the incident and has reiterated that “the weapons on board the Russian fighters were not used” and that the Su-27s “did not come into contact with the aircraft and returned safely to their airfield.”