Reconnaissance planes of the United States and Great Britain, as well as an American strategic drone, were spotted south of the Crimea on Wednesday, April 21.
According to Interfax, with reference to Western air observers, the scouts performed tasks in the airspace near the peninsula, where Russia imposed a restriction on flights until April 24.
It is noted that we are talking about the P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft and the RQ-4B Global Hawk drone, the RC-135W Air Force electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
In addition, the situation was observed by the French aircraft E-3C Sentry AWACS, which was spotted near the Romanian coast.
Earlier in the day, it was reported that the strategic unmanned aerial vehicle of the US Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk took off from the Sigonella air base in Sicily, flew near the maritime border of the Crimea, as well as along the coast of the Krasnodar Territory. And then it passed over the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.