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Putin: US aircraft involved in Black Sea UK incident

by Daria LitvinovaVladimir Isachenkov
| June 30, 2021 4:21 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week’s Black Sea incident in what he described as a “provocation" to test Moscow's response.

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