Moscow warns US aircraft away from its airspace after drone crash

Su-27 fighter planes approached one of its MQ-9 Reaper drones on a reconnaissance mission over international waters.

Moscow denied the aircraft had collided and said the drone had crashed after “sharp maneuvers.” It said the drone had “deliberately and provocatively” flown close to Russian airspace with its transponders off, and Moscow had scrambled fighters to identify it. Kyiv, for its part, said the incident showed Moscow was willing to “expand the conflict zone” to draw in other countries. Russia was raising the stakes as it faces “conditions of a strategic defeat” in Ukraine, tweeted Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.The United States conducts regular surveillance flights in international airspace in the region.

Zelenskiy said in an overnight address that he had met his top military brass, and the main focus was on Bakhmut: “There was a clear position of the entire command: Strengthen this sector and destroy the occupiers to the maximum.” Intense fighting has also been under way north of Bakhmut, where Russia is trying to recapture territory it lost to a Ukrainian counter-offensive last year, and further south, where Moscow took heavy losses in failed assaults on the Ukrainian-held bastion of Vuhledar in February.

Both sides describe the fighting in Bakhmut as a “meat grinder,” with the battlefield strewn with dead.

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