This is reported by CNN, citing unnamed officials.

According to the interlocutors of the channel, the main purpose of sending another UAV was to inspect the scene of the incident, as well as to monitor the Russian military and their actions.

Earlier, the coordinator for strategic communications of the White House, John Kirby, said that the United States would not comply with the restrictions that Russia imposed in the airspace in the Black Sea region in connection with the special operation.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims that the United States ignores the fact that after the start of the CVO, the coastal areas of the Black Sea have a limited status for flights.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in a conversation with the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, noted that the flights of American strategic drones near the coast of Crimea are provocative, so Russia will continue to respond proportionately to all provocations.