"US-Russia Drone Encounter Raises Tensions, Sparks Concerns of Escalation"

The Pentagon has released a 42-second video clip showing two Russian fighter jets spraying a substance, believed to be jet fuel, on an unarmed US reconnaissance drone before one of the jets collides with the drone, forcing it down into the Black Sea. The footage provides visual evidence to support the American version of the episode, the first known physical contact between the Russian and American militaries since the war in Ukraine started last year. The US and Ukraine say the drone was flying in international airspace on a routine surveillance and reconnaissance mission.