US says any recovery operation in such deep water would be difficult and unlikely to yield useful intelligence
Moscow has said it intends to recover the wreckage of a US drone brought down on Tuesday, but US officials said the debris could be in such deep water that recovery is impossible, and would have no real intelligence value.
Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, said Russia had the technological capability to recover the debris of the MQ-9 Reaper drone from the seabed. The impact site is believed to be in international waters off the west coast of occupied Crimea, where Russia has established naval bases and airfields.
“It has not been recovered. And I’m not sure that we’re going to be able to recover it,” Kirby told CNN. “Where it fell into the Black Sea [is] very, very deep water. So we’re still assessing whether there can be any kind of recovery effort. There may not be.” Although the US had no ships in the Black Sea, Milley noted that it had “a lot of allies and friends in the area”.
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