{"id":28494,"date":"2024-02-23T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/russia-threatened-to-shoot-down-surveillance-craft-over-black-sea-france-says\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:31:32","slug":"russia-threatened-to-shoot-down-surveillance-craft-over-black-sea-france-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/russia-threatened-to-shoot-down-surveillance-craft-over-black-sea-france-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia threatened to shoot down surveillance craft over Black Sea, France says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian forces have threatened to shoot down a French surveillance craft patrolling in international airspace, according to defense officials in Paris.<\/strong><\/li>\n
The incident reportedly transpired over the Black Sea in November, during which Col. Pierre Gaudilli\u00e8re claims “a particularly aggressive radio exchange” took place.<\/strong><\/li>\n
France’s report is the latest signal of Moscow’s increasing aggression as it fails to make significant headway in its invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Russian forces threatened to shoot down a French surveillance aircraft patrolling in international airspace over the Black Sea, a signal of increasingly aggressive behavior from Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine struggles to make headway, French defense officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n
“A Russian air traffic control system threatened to shoot down French aircraft in the Black Sea when we were in a free international zone where we patrol,” the French defense minister, S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, said on RTL radio.<\/p>\n
A French military spokesman, Col. Pierre Gaudilli\u00e8re, said Lecornu was referring to an incident in mid-November that involved one of France\u2019s four giant Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, surveillance aircraft that was flying over international waters in the Black Sea. Gaudilli\u00e8re described the incident as unprecedented for French pilots in that region.<\/p>\n
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“Through a radio exchange, it was threatened by the Russians,” Gaudilli\u00e8re said.<\/p>\n
“It was a particularly aggressive radio exchange,” he added. “It\u2019s a first.”<\/p>\n
Two other officials said the exchange was in English and that Russian air traffic control said its forces would “destroy” the French aircraft. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the classified details.<\/p>\n