Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said he is in contact with the US side and advocates a reasonable and logical resolution of the incident with the US drone over the Black Sea.
"We are closely following the development of events, we are making various contacts. We are making every effort to have the situation resolved in a reasonable and logical way. We are discussing this with our American interlocutors. Furthermore, we are currently continuing this work in cooperation with the foreign ministry," Milliyet quoted the minister as saying on Wednesday.
Earlier, the Russian defense ministry said that Russian Air Force control means recorded the MQ-9 flight near the Crimean Peninsula on Tuesday morning, it was moving in breach of the borders around the temporary regime of airspace use established to conduct the SMO. According to the ministry, the flight was carried out with the transponders turned off. The ministry added that the device, as a result of sharp maneuvering, went into an uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface. The ministry stressed that the Russian fighters did not use on-board weapons, did not come into contact with the drone and returned safely to their home airfield.
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Based on materials from TASS