Russian naval forces may be searching for the wreckage of the downed U.S. drone, Ukrainian reports suggest.
Speaking during a national broadcast on Thursday, Ukraine's Southern Command spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk said Russia has deployed 20 ships, including missile carriers, and a large number of units of auxiliary fleet ships in the Black Sea.said the Russian forces may be searching for the wreckage of a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone, which was intercepted by Russian jets and crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday.
Humeniuk said Russian forces are attempting to"cover the naval operations in the Black Sea as much as possible and are trying to hide their actions" from Ukraine. Russia's naval forces have played only a limited part in the Ukraine conflict since Ukraine sank Russia's Black Sea flagship, the, with two Neptune missiles last April. After that, there were reports that Russia had moved its ships further from the Ukraine coast, out of range of Kyiv's anti-ship missiles. Fears early in the war of a Russian landing at Odesa, on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, were not borne out.
Humeniuk's warning of heightened Russian naval activity comes after Volodymyr Saldo, who was appointed by the Kremlin to lead Ukraine's southern Kherson region after it was seized during President
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