The US resumes a mission in the area of the Romanian coast after 11 months. A measure taken after the failure of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations
Global Hawk PHOTO: Not Supplied / Willwest News / Profimedia
The data of the real-time tracking service of the position of the flights in flight Flights24, based in Stockholm, showed that a strategic recognition drone RQ-4B Hawk American made a new flight in the Black Sea area, the Kyiv Post publication reports on Monday.
The data showed that the unmanned device, with the Forte10 indicative, flew from the NATO Naval Air Base in Sicily and made a recognition flight near the coast of Romania, at an altitude of about 15,500 meters, at about 130 kilometers from Crimea.
RQ-4B Global Hawk, produced by Northrop Grumman, is the largest unmanned aircraft (UAV) in the world. It has a wingspan of almost 40 meters and a flight range of over 30 hours.
It is equipped with high-tech surveillance equipment, synthetic opening radars, electro-optical and infrared sensors, having the ability to collect real-time information on air defense activities, military aircraft and ships and can supervise an area of 100,000 square kilometers-an area of Iceland.
These are the first information about a Global Hawk mission in the Black Sea region of June last year.
US reconsider its position toward Russia
Some military analysts have appreciated that it could be a signal of a change in the US vision of Russia's intransigence, given that the air mission took place immediately after the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations mediated by Turkey on May 16, considered as a failure.
The first bilateral meeting face to face between a Ukrainian and a Russian delegation of the last three years lasted less than two hours and ended with a single understanding – the exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war on each side.
At these discussions, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinski, threatened that Russia can fight in Ukraine unlimited, evoking the Great Nordic War of the eighteenth century, which lasted 21, if Kiev does not accept to transfer the Donetsk, Luhansk, Herson and Zaporojie regions, does not recognize the annexation, Neutrality, among others.
According to the Financial Times, Steven Witkoff, the Special President of the US President for Russia, who had to go again to Moscow after these discussions, would have canceled his visit to Putin.
British prime minister Keir Starmer reiterated the increases in increasing the pressure of sanctions on Moscow and to extend the military aid for Ukraine.
A telephone discussion between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin was provided for Monday afternoon.
The White House confirmed that the call began during the morning after Washington time. In a press conference earlier, the spokesman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said Donald Trump's goal would be “to see this conflict,” adding that the US president has become “tired and frustrated” by the attitude of Moscow and Kiev, AFP notes.
