Russian Foreign Ministry rules out contacts with US over UAV incidents over Syria

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has ruled out discussing with the United States dangerous UAV rapprochements between American UAVs and Russian air force aircraft in the skies over Syria.

About this writes RIA Novosti.

“If they were somewhere closer to the state of Texas, these drones, then there would be no such rapprochements,” Ryabkov said.

He also accused the US of creating dangerous situations in the skies over Syria.

Earlier, there were a number of incidents in Syria in which US UAVs dangerously approached VKS aircraft.

The pilots were forced to take timely measures to avoid a collision.