Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said on Wednesday that the US would continue to conduct surveillance flights after an American reconnaissance drone was struck by a Russian warplane and downed over the Black Sea. \u201cMake no mistake, the US will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows,\u201d Austin said in remarks at the beginning of a virtual meeting of some 50 nations supporting Ukraine\u2019s efforts in the war against Russia. \u201cThis hazardous episode is part of a pattern of aggressive and risky, and unsafe actions by Russian pilots in international airspace,\u201d Austin said. \u201cIt is incumbent upon Russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incident, the first known physical contact between the Russian and US militaries since the war in Ukraine began, has raised tensions between the superpowers, with both sides blaming the other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said on Wednesday that the US would continue to conduct surveillance flights after an American reconnaissance drone was struck by a Russian warplane and downed over the Black Sea. \u201cMake no mistake, the US will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows,\u201d Austin said in remarks at the beginning of a virtual meeting of some 50 nations supporting Ukraine\u2019s efforts in the war against Russia. \u201cThis hazardous episode is part of a pattern of aggressive and risky, and unsafe actions by Russian pilots in international airspace,\u201d Austin said. \u201cIt is incumbent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}