Russian Defense Minister and US Secretary of Defense during their talks focused on exchanging opinions about the causes and consequences of the incident with the US drone that crashed into the Black Sea

Iran PressEurope: The Russian and US defence ministers held a phone call on Wednesday, the Russian defence ministry said, a day after a US military drone crashed over the Black Sea.

The ministry said Shoigu stated that the incident had been caused by US moves that disrespected the flight restrictions, which Russia established for a certain area due to the special operation, and by enhanced intelligence gathering directed against Russia.

Moscow said the request for the call came from the United States, but provided no other details of the conversation between Sergei Shoigu and his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin

Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the US, said earlier on Wednesday that the drone attempted to gather reconnaissance information to convey it to Ukraine for strikes against Russia.

Separately, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that the US is trying to look for “provocations” to escalate its “confrontational approaches.” 219