WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will on Tuesday afternoon summon Russia’s ambassador to Washington after a Russian Su-27 fighter jet downed a U.S. military drone over the Black Sea, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
The U.S. ambassador to Moscow has conveyed a strong message to Russia’s foreign affairs ministry and U.S. officials had briefed allies and partners over the incident, Price told reporters on a phone briefing.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Rami Ayyub; writing by Simon Lewis; editing by Chris Reese)
