Moscow said Wednesday that it will try to retrieve the wreckage of a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea after a collision with a Russian jet fighter.
in hopes of rendering the wreckage useless for intelligence collection. Yet while efforts were made before the crash to “minimize” any useful content Russia might obtain from the drone, those steps are “not foolproof,” Kirby said. “We did the best we could to minimize any intelligence value that might come from anybody else getting their hands” on it.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin said there were “technical possibilities” for Russia to retrieve fragments of the downed drone, and that the United States was already “very actively” performing reconnaissance in the region, “using all means in terms of space, visual reconnaissance and radio intelligence,” according to Russia’s Interfax news service.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters there Wednesday that “relations between Russia and the U.S. are at a low point.” But, he said, “Russia has never refused and does not refuse to engage in constructive dialogue.”
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