Russian pilots told the details of the interception of the MQ-9 Reaper over the Black Sea

A video with the stories of the pilots was published by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

According to Major Vasily Vavilov, the pilots were on duty for air defense. They received a command to fly, after which two crews they intercepted an American drone moving to violate the Russian state border.

"After departure, we got close to this aircraft, identified it and performed maneuvers to force it to refuse to perform its task," Vavilov said.

At the same time, Major Sergei Popov stressed that the pilots did not use weapons, and also did not come into contact with this UAV.

Earlier it became known that the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu awarded the Order of Courage to su-27 pilots who prevented the violation of the borders of the special operation area by the American MQ-9 drone over the Black Sea.