Today, in a dangerous move by Russian forces, a US-made Reaper drone was shot down over the Black Sea near the Ukraine frontline. The incident occurred after a Russian SU-27 jet collided with the American drone. It is believed that the incident was the result of a reckless and unprofessional maneuvers involving fuel dumping and close flybys of the MQ-9 drone.

The U.S. military confirmed that the drone was forced to crash in international waters as a result of the incident. Western military sources said that there seemed to be an “incident” involving this drone earlier in the day, while Lara Seligman, a POLITCO expert, claimed it was Russian forces that brought the drone down. Seligman wrote on Twitter, “This morning, a Russian Su-27 aircraft struck the propeller of a US MQ-9 drone. It caused US forces to bring the