{"id":266449,"date":"2023-03-16T07:08:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266449"},"modified":"2023-03-18T06:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T06:57:40","slug":"after-drone-incident-russia-vows-to-retaliate-against-all-us-provocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266449","title":{"rendered":"After drone incident, Russia vows to retaliate against ‘all US provocations’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV — March 15, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Russian Defence Minister Shoigu. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Hot on the heels of the crashing of a US spy drone near the Russian territory in the Black Sea, Russia warns the United States that it will retaliate “proportionately” to all future American provocations.<\/p>\n

“Flights of American strategic unmanned aerial vehicles off the coast of Crimea are provocative in nature, which creates pre-conditions for an escalation of the situation in the Black Sea zone,” the Russian defense ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Russia is not interested in such a development of events, but it will continue to respond proportionately to all provocations,” it added.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the US military claimed that a Russian fighter plane had clipped the propeller of one of its spy drones flying over the Black Sea in “international airspace,” causing the drone to crash into the water.<\/p>\n

Russia denied that its forces had made any effort to down the drone, and instead suggested that the US aircraft had possibly crashed due to “sharp maneuvering.”<\/p>\n

According to Moscow, the incident happened as the UAV was flying “over the waters of the Black Sea in the area of the Crimean peninsula…towards the Russian state border.”<\/p>\n

Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17, 2014 and formally applied to fall under Russian sovereignty following a referendum. Kiev and Washington have refused to recognize Moscow’s sovereignty over the territory.<\/p>\n

‘Increased’ US spying on Russia led to drone incident<\/p>\n

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigualso told the Pentagon chief that Washington’s “increased” intelligence gathering against Russia had led to a drone incident.<\/p>\n

Shoigu told his American counterpart Lloyd Austin that “increased intelligence activities against the interests of the Russian Federation” as well as the “non-compliance with the restricted flight zone” declared by Moscow had led to the drone incident, the defense ministry said in the statement.<\/p>\n

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Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has warned the Pentagon that ‘Increased’ US spying on Russia led to the recent incident, which saw a U.S. drone go down over the Black Sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266484,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266449\/revisions\/266484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}