"I don't know if we can recover [it] or not, but we will certainly have to do that, and we will deal with it," Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's security council, said yesterday. "I certainly hope for success." Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service, said Russia had the technological capability to recover the debris of the MQ-9 Reaper drone from the seabed. The crash site is believed to be in international waters off the west coast of occupied Crimea, where Russia has established naval bases and airfields.
Turkey has barred access for warships through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began over a year ago, and the US navy is not believed to have any warships currently in the Black Sea.
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