{"id":1887976,"date":"2023-03-15T19:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-claims-u-s-is-directly-involved-in-fighting-war-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:49:23","slug":"russia-claims-u-s-is-directly-involved-in-fighting-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-claims-u-s-is-directly-involved-in-fighting-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims U.S. Is \u2018Directly Involved\u2019 In Fighting War In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-claims-u-s-is-directly-involved-in-fighting-war-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1887976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> The top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian<\/a> Official claimed Wednesday that the U.S. was &#8220;directly involved&#8221; After Russian pilots launched a provocation against a U.S.-operated drone flying over international waters this week, the conflict led to the destruction and collision of the drone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans keep saying that they are not participating in hostilities,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-15-23\/h_d9b3da25e71b931319e9b8293b822d2a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> Nikolai Patrushev is the Russian Security Council Secretary and former chief of Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB). &#8220;This is yet another confirmation that they are directly involved in these events, in the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patrushev stated that Russian officials had planned to attempt to recover the drone from the Black Sea after a Russian Su-27 plane struck the propeller on the unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drone. This caused the U.S. forces and MQ-9 to be brought down in international waters.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russian-fighter-jet-collides-with-u-s-military-reaper-drone-over-black-sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> According to the U.S. European Command, both Russian Su-27s had fueled on the MQ-9 multiple times prior to the incident. They flew in front in an unsound manner and displayed a disregard for the environment. &#8220;lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9,&#8221; U.S. Air Force General James B. Hecker was commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe &#038; Air Forces Africa. &#8220;In fact, this unsafe and unprofessional act by the Russians nearly caused both aircraft to crash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. and Allied aircraft will continue to operate in international airspace and we call on the Russians to conduct themselves professionally and safely,&#8221; Hecker agreed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the incident happened following a &#8220;pattern of dangerous actions&#8221; Russian pilots interacting with American and Ally aircraft over international aviation space that could &#8220;lead to miscalculation and unintended escalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. Air Forces in Europe \u2013 Air Forces Africa routinely fly aircraft throughout Europe over sovereign territory and throughout international airspace in coordination with applicable host nation and international laws,&#8221; The statement has been added. &#8220;In order to bolster collective European defense and security, these missions support Allied, partner, and U.S. national objectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>General Mark Milley declared Wednesday that the U.S. doesn&#8217;t consider the incident to be an act of war. &#8220;Incidents happen,&#8221; Milley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/incidents-happen-gen-milley-wont-consider-russia-dropping-u-s-drone-an-act-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. &#8220;And clearly we do not seek armed conflict with Russia and I believe at this point we should investigate this incident and move on from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senator-graham-suggests-shooting-down-russian-military-aircraft-after-jet-collides-with-u-s-drone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Graham suggests shooting down Russian military aircraft after it collides with U.S. drones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russia-claims-u-s-is-directly-involved-in-fighting-war-in-ukraine\">Russia Claims U.S. Is \u2018Directly Involved&#8217; In Fighting War In Ukraine<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Russian official claimed on Wednesday that the U.S. was \u201cdirectly involved\u201d in fighting the war in Ukraine after Russian pilots initiated a provocation against a U.S. drone operating over international waters this week that led to a collision and destruction of the drone. \u201cThe Americans keep saying that they are not participating in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1891379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10679,4856,9469,7445,4280,7238,6991,6696],"class_list":["post-1887976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-directly","tag-claims","tag-fighting","tag-involved","tag-russia","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}