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Drone delivery companies are prepping for a major U.S. rollout.

Moscow says American drone downing highlights increasing intelligence gathering off the annexed Crimea peninsula.

The US says Russia’s intercept was part of a ‘pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions’

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart about a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed into the Black Sea after an encounter with a Russian fighter jet, as officials sought to keep the incident from further escalating tension already high over the invasion of Ukraine.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says US ‘will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows’.

Moscow (AFP) - Moscow said Wednesday it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea in a confrontation Washington blamed on two Russian fighter jets.

Russian officials say a bid will be made to recover a US drone from the Black Sea while US authorities say no intelligence can be gained.

A U.S. military surveillance drone's crash into the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian jets was likely an unintentional act from Russia's side, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price told MSNBC on Wednesday.

The downing of a U.S. drone by a Russian jet is part of a pattern of military behavior by Russia that is becoming more aggressive, the top U.S. general said on Wednesday.